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The '05 Mustang LED gauges

Old 7/3/04, 11:34 PM
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I know they use LED piping technology...but are they, in fact, true LED gauges - with that wonderful glowing 3D effect like you have in Audis, Acura TSX, Lexus, etc...?

Does anyone know, or has anyone seen them in action?

Or are they just cheap, stenciled gauge numbers with lackluster '60s type back-illumination? :bang:

Anyone...?
Old 7/3/04, 11:40 PM
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Ive seen the video of the color guages changing, and by the way they were changing so smoothly, I thought they were LED guages. But thats just my guess. I never saw them chsange in person either.
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I read somewhere that they are LEDs(4 different colors that combine to create the whole color palette), and of videos I've seen, it is a smooth transition, didn't see them in action personally...
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Originally posted by FrankBullitt05@July 3, 2004, 11:46 PM
I read somewhere that they are LEDs(4 different colors that combine to create the whole color palette), and of videos I've seen, it is a smooth transition, didn't see them in action personally...
yea thats what i read
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I'm betting it all that they are Led's. They are very cheap, they are small, and they barely need any voltage to work, plus like you said, they are grouped together in clusters of 4. taking from a traditional RGB color pallet (red green and blue, with possibly white) with varieng intensity you can creat well over 256 colors

Dont know for sure but Im pretty confident its the case.
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They look like like pretty standard stuff. Back lit electronic analog gauges with translucent characters and needle.

I suppose the light from the LEDs use light pipes to illuminate the gauges.
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Lol the title answers the question
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Originally posted by AhhDrJones@July 4, 2004, 3:01 AM
I'm betting it all that they are Led's. They are very cheap, they are small, and they barely need any voltage to work, plus like you said, they are grouped together in clusters of 4. taking from a traditional RGB color pallet (red green and blue, with possibly white) with varieng intensity you can creat well over 256 colors

Dont know for sure but Im pretty confident its the case.
You are right, except for the part you say LED's are cheap. They actually aren't compared to incandescant bulbs.
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They are all cheap, the blackout numbers in Japanese luxury cars are cheap, indiglo-electoluminecent is cheap too. Its all just fancy laminated cardboard basically. One thing good about LED is they last forever.
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I love it I'll set mine up to glow green. I want my mustang to be green gold stripes fogs in center gold rims gold in place of aluminum inside.
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Oo. I am going to set mine to red to go with the Torch Red exterior.
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Let's see red fire car, charcoal leather, and blue dash,or white,or green,or red, this could go on forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I it!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by kevinb120@July 4, 2004, 7:02 PM
One thing good about LED is they last forever.
Unless you short circuit them or apply too much voltage. Then they die and die fast. But in a car that's unlikely to happen.
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its actually 6 different colors
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Actually MyColor offers up to 125 different color backgrounds.
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We know, but it does that by mixing different light. We are debating how many different color lights there actually are to create those 125 colors
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Got a link to one of the sites that show it changing colors? I havent seen that... Cool!

Thanks
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its 6 base colors...........u can combine and alter the 6 to make 125 different colors
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edit: see my following post

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