At 11:28 PM 7/15/2013, J Stewart wrote:
>I changed my dash lights to LEDs from Van Cafe, all except the LCD
>clock. Very easy on the eyes (mine are 55 yrs old) and much more
>visible at night than the old ones.

Mine are 62 but they've always been very sensitive to things not
being just right, especially at night.

What color are your lights and how well does the dimming work?  Did
you modify anything?  Did Van Cafe add extra resistors to the LEDs to
make them act somewhat more like incandescent lamps (I don't mean the
series resistor that they pretty much all have to have)?

How does the dimming curve compare to incandescent?  I'd expect it to
be not very effective.

Tell me about "more visible"?  The gauges all seem as visible as I
would want them to be, except possibly the odometer.  Usually on a
dark highway I have the panel turned down quite a bit, and the rest
of the time I usually have it a bit below full.  On a seriously dark
road on a dark night I might have it turned down very low.

My Garmin 750 GPS at 20% nighttime brightness is too bright except
for twilight and city streets.  10% is reasonable for other
conditions involving headlights.  If I were in actual dark conditions
it would drive me nuts.

Yrs,
d