dash light question

[Per Lindgren]

Ti Kan wrote:

>Greg Smith writes:
>
>>Do Audi dashes have red lights due to red colored
>>bulbs or red-colored plastic housings or what?
>>In the interest of making my '86 Syncro more
>>Audi-like, not to mention some claim it helps night
>>vision, I'd like to have a red dash at night.
>>What's the best way to accomplish this?
>>
>
>The red lighting comes from the red filtering effects in the optics.
>The bulbs glow in regular incandescent white (on the latest Audis,
>white LEDs are used instead).  You can try coloring the optics with a
>red marker, or use special "bulb condom" red filters available from
>VDO dealers, but these will reduce the effective light.  Audi uses
>higher intensity bulbs to bring the light level up to normal.
>
As an alternative you can use red LEDs instead of lightbulbs. I'm
working on something right now, with LEDs in the instruments

PerL
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