led instrument issue

[robalero]

ok so I installed red LED's t-10 inverted in my cluster yesterday and while I thought I had all of them working ( one is not ) its not very bright at all is there anyway to make it brighter? do I gotta take the green off? and yes my dimmer switch is at the top

[cherrington17]

so all of them are bright, except one?

i'd check to make sure the contacts are clean and that they have a proper connection with each other.

[robalero]

their all ok its not very bright at all maybe its just that green film that I need to get rid of since I never touched it I just installed the bulbs used an ultra thing pair of needle nose pliers to crimp them to the connectors

[cherrington17]

ok... so all of them aren't very bright?

and are you looking at it in darkness or daylight? Daylight, I can't see any of my dash lights. I have to close up my garage and block all the windows... Red is kinda hard to see normally, since its at an extreme for our vision. Also, its a harder wavelength for leds to reproduce...

In my experience, reds are always about half the brightness of blues. Just how it is.

[Papa Rad17]

Iv noticed that with my underglow, the blue is way more intense then the red. As for the dash lnoticed I noticed a sorta varying brightness of them as if some were covered up and some weren't, now I have the overlays so it's not a prob. The red led's deal your doing is awsome though! I always loved the look in my brothers grand prix.

[cherrington17]

it WILL get brighter if you remove the film on the gauges. No doubt there.

[robalero]

ill remove the film because I drove home last night at 12:30 am and it wasn't very bright it was ok but the stock bulbs were a lot brighter.

looks like I know what im doing next saturday, tear her apart fix that one bulb and clean that film, any special thing to do or a link on here of the how-to get rid of that film?

[cherrington17]

its on here somewhere... i forgot who did it though.

[robalero]

ill search for it, but if anyone finds it please post here too

[robalero]

curious, has anyone done white LED's? aside from the green of course with them taking it off. if so anyone got pics or links?

[TdotAlero]

curious, has anyone done white LED's? aside from the green of course with them taking it off. if so anyone got pics or links?
I've got white leds in my car - in the cluster, shifter, map lights, foot area and dome. I will take pictures, and post in about hour, when I'm back home.

[robalero]

sounds good man I wanna see it, did you have any issues taking the green film off?