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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 02:16 PM
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Nice job, they came out sick looking.
Old Jan 25, 2009 | 05:06 PM
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Looks great man Bend the speedo face back a bit, does not look like all of the leds are on to me as I have never had one that was not equally bright as the others.

If you have any questions on anything, always feel free to pm me!
Old Feb 3, 2009 | 04:59 PM
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Which resistors did you use? And why is the Speedometer white LEDs dimmer than the other gauges?
Old Feb 3, 2009 | 07:18 PM
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I used 330ohm and 470ohm resistors. The speedo has a broken led so I have to take it apart and check.
Old Feb 3, 2009 | 07:21 PM
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Why did you use the two different resistors? And which went where?
Old Feb 3, 2009 | 08:13 PM
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So what is better, blue needles or white needles?
Old Feb 3, 2009 | 09:15 PM
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FM08TC: I followed this post on what to do.
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=213205

Aurura: Depends on what your color scheme is. Personally I like the color blue. And its easier to see when your in daytime.
Old Feb 3, 2009 | 09:29 PM
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Yup, already have been there... There's just a few typos on the tachometer board chart (MT and AT) that threw me off... so I was just curiuos to know what you ended up doing.
Old Feb 3, 2009 | 09:51 PM
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At first I thought it was a typo too but if you follow that you should be ok.
Old Feb 4, 2009 | 02:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Iceman04503
Aurura: Depends on what your color scheme is. Personally I like the color blue. And its easier to see when your in daytime.
So a white needle is harder to see during the day? My colors for my LED swap will consist of blue, white and a little red. But the dominant color is going to be blue. White needles look so awesome at night though....

Thoughts?
Old Feb 4, 2009 | 02:32 AM
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Its all up to you. If you had white needles and blue leds that would look nice. But i'm sure you can see white needles during the day.Hmm maybe i'll paint my fuel and temp needles white. And keep the speedo and rpm blue. something different.
Old Feb 4, 2009 | 04:54 AM
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There you go! Change it up a bit! I'm just so stuck on these two needle colors...

This is something like what the gauge will look like:
Old Feb 4, 2009 | 05:06 AM
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Ohhhhh... If your going with black gauge face then def go with the white needles. It would look nice.
Old Feb 4, 2009 | 02:07 PM
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Yeah, that is what I was thinking. The blue is dominant already, ya know.
Old Feb 6, 2009 | 05:12 PM
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I did this on my xB already, I used blue LEDs on mine and it looks awesome. The only part I'm wondering how to do though is the HVAC controls I haven't really looked at them yet though.
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Originally Posted by Aurora
There you go! Change it up a bit! I'm just so stuck on these two needle colors...

This is something like what the gauge will look like:
Thats nice. I'd like to do something like that, black gauge face with white leds and white needles. But I don't think I can fork over 150 just for the gauge faces.
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