Speedhut gauge faces installed, finally!

[2003z]

After doing the job, do you have advice or specific areas to watch that caused you grief that you can share to make my experience a little smoother?

Jim

Its a fairly straight forward job. When you take th speedo and tach apart, just use tweezers to lift the needle and slide the faces over them.

The other 2 split gauges had to be glued and taped in place, They said use dble sided tape included, but there was none, so I used elmers glue and a little scotch tape in the corners to hold them while the glue set. The clock was easy.

[vercingetorix]

Beautiful!

Do they make a speedometer face that starts at 20?

[2003z]

I don't think so, have to check with them though.

[DeesZ]

I like like like. I want want want. Don't tell the wife.

You took the words right out of my mouth, 280~Master!

Ditto, ditto, ditto!!!

[76Datsun280z]

Nice! That's pretty cool!

[hls30.com]

Ordered and then some! I had a good chat with them before ordering.

If everything I planned works out, I'll post a technical article showing how to duplicate it...

Will

[NZeder]

Cool so how does it work? Do you have to use a special light in the original bulb location or do these faces wire to the inverter box/controller supplied directly? Very cool.

I have asked if they a the volt meter type and if they can do the calendar clock faces too.

[hls30.com]

These are overlays for the gage faces, though I am going to do a little more than that(Hence the duplication reference in my previous post)

Will

[ChrisA]

Cool so how does it work? Do you have to use a special light in the original bulb location or do these faces wire to the inverter box/controller supplied directly? Very cool.

They work on the principal of Electro Luminescence. Yes, they are wired to the controller sold with the gauge faces. I think you would remove the stock bulbs to avoid backlighting.

Primer on Electro Luminescence (EL for short).

For us techies...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroluminescence

http://www.indiana.edu/~hightech/fpd/papers/ELDs.html

Pretty cool stuff, its been around for a long time.

Chris

[jmark]

Nice!

[Go240Zags]

Yes a speedo that starts at 20 mph and a gauge face for my rally clock when it gets working would be great. Gary D.

[hls30.com]

... a gauge face for my rally clock when it gets working would be great. Gary D.

They won't touch custom stuf-but it is in the works:love: !!

Will