update on speed hut indiglo gauges

[240 4U2NV]

The problem is that they cant set a specific date untill they get the 20 preorders because it could take a week or a month to get them but you raise and interesting point, I bet there are more people out there in your same situation, I guess you can wait untill after the origianal 20 orders and then just order like you would from a regular mail order place, although they seem to have a good business going for someplace out to rip people off. I think i will check them out a little more and see if anything turns up maybe ease some minds, I will also bring this up to them next time i call and see what alternatives they suggest. Ill let you know what i find out.

[Zed]

The “Z” graphic I posted above was actually ganked from this site. I modified it with Photoshop. I don’t really like a lot,

but it does illustrate what I want. I’ll do a better one later and post it when I’m done for all who want to use it. I have

to go back to the site and re-check the formats they prefer and see if I can do them, but I know they’ll accept quality JPG’s.

They just charge a little extra to clean them up.

2. I was e-mailed a question about dimming the indiglo light, speedhut says that you can hook up the factory dimmer but in

some cases it causes strange side effects but that the color inverter functions like a dimmer with green being brighter and

blue being darker.

I was looking at that too and if you read about the Color inverters you find this:

2 color Standard Inverter

Switches the Indiglo panel between green and blue color. The color change is most noticeable on the White,Blue,Silver, and

Midnight Dial colors.

6 color Upgrade Inverter

Switches from Green to Blue in 6 increments. Most noticeable on the White,Blue,Silver, and Midnight Dial colors. The Blue and

green membrane buttons control color changes in 6 increments while the black and spoted control the brightness. The Membrane

switch glows indiglo blue at night. You would want to upgrade to this inverter if you would rather have the thin membrane

switch buttons to control brightness, -OR- You want more control over the color hue from green to blue AND your dial theme

consists of whites or blues.

I thought the “2 Color inverter” control had a switch to choose either glue or green and a potentiometer to control brightness.

Am I wrong? If so, what does the switch do?

And how do you mount the “6 color Upgrade Inverter” membrane switches?

I'm not the least bit worried about handing over a CC number. Erroneous charges are easily contested.

Unlike Paypal and other payment methods.

[240 4U2NV]

Zed,

It would seem that you are right about the dimmer thing, maybe the guy i talked to was not one of the tech people but a sales person instead or maybe they have changed the style of inverters they use recently to include the dimmer or the other way around. I will check back with them again and see what they say could have also been just a misunderstanding on my part, we talked about several different things i might have been confusing them. I will also ask about mounting of the 6 color controlls, looks like maybe they have a sticky sheet on the back and you just stick them to whatever, also could be you have to cut out a square hole and then there is a bracket that goes behind but i will get a for sure answer later this week.

It would be great if you posted that pic for everyone to use, i really like the idea of having a z on my gauge faces. Maybe if we get enough interest in haveing the z put on it will become one of the logos in their clip art gallery so we dont have to each send in the file.

How many of you would like the z logo added?

Keep the questons coming and tell everyone about these gauges the quicker we get our 20 orders the quicker we get our kits.

[Zed]

Seems they prefer adobe illustrator or corel draw files, but they will accept JPG's and GIF's.

Base price is $32.00 for adobe illustrator or corel draw files. You also can upload JPG and GIF files,

however there could be additional minor artwork charges to clean up the image for screening. Of course

we will contact you if your file needs modification before additional charges would be applied for your approval.

So, here's the best I could come up with. (click the pics for larger versions)

They're not perfect, but I figure that the SpeedHut people are better equipped to clean them up than I am.

Note 1: Having just looked at the first "Z" above (The one I plan to use), I think I'll make one small change

to it. (re-center the cross bar) I'll post it when I'm finished.

Note 2: I think second one might look good if you choose the "RickShaw" font for your gauges.

[Zed]

Two improved versions: (click for bigger pics)

The first one I fixed the cross bar, and I made the second one sharper.

The second one will be the one I'm going with unless someone comes up with something better.

[carguyinok]

so much better then mine. But if someone wants to use mine here. Z :sleepy:

[Zed]

I like it, but could you scale it up a bit.

Here's another, similar to one above, but maybe better.

(Full size)

[Zed]

Well th 17th has come and gone and I don't see Z-cars on SpeedHuts web page. Did they forget us?

[driftmunky]

yeah where are they?

[Zed]

The Z car pre-order page is up!

http://www.speedhut.com/15orders.asp

Scroll to bottom and click either the Dial Face Glows or the Font Glow links.

As soon as they get 20 orders they will start tooling-up to make them.

Non-Z Sample:

Face Glow:

Font Glow:

[carguyinok]

well, I went there for the preorder. They show the number of sets in preorder as 0 none zip zilch.

At this mind blowing pace they will never make them. :sleepy:

[240 4U2NV]

Well guys they are up, let the preordering begin! Dont forget to tell everyone you know about these gauges so that we can get to our 20 as soon as posssible!!