[DeTomaso] Instrument panel (brighter bulbs) dash...

Fri Jan 17 09:53:11 EST 2014

In my 71 Mach 1 the blue lenses for the instrument lights made it very hard to see much of any light until it got really dark.  With the dimmer full on I could just barely see the instruments.

Tom
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From: Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>
To: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
Sent: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 9:45 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Instrument panel (brighter bulbs) dash...

    In my 1971 Mach I, I used to run the dimmer all the way down till it    clicked off.  I'd then click it back on and it at just the right    setting, the lowest.  It was just enough driving on those back roads    when I was a kid.  In the Pantera, I can't seem to get them bright    enough for regular night time driving.

    In the Mach I, I think there is something about how the light is    filtered against the instrument faces vs how it's done in the    instruments on the Pantera.  I just need to get brighter bulbs but I    want to make sure I have dimmer capability.

    Asa Jay

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    On 1/16/2014 7:30 PM, thomas wrote:    

I find that modern cars, at least our 2010 golf, can't be        dimmed low enough for my taste. It has always been on the lowest        setting and I would prefer it being even lower. 

I used to run it on full blast but a colleague I had        mentioned that he had been a radar operator when doing his        military service, and they work in dark rooms, with the        brightness of the screens turned way down, to take advantage of        the eyes peripheral sensitivity. He had complained about his new        car not allowing the brightness being turned down low enough. I        tested turning the brightness down and I now much prefer it        being dark.

Saab even had their "dark panel", where only the speedo was        lit as long as all the other gauges were showing nominal values.        They would lit up only when needed. Really cool and they claimed        it was from their fighter jet legacy. 

Thomas

        17 jan 2014 kl. 03:00 skrev MikeLDrew at aol.com:

              In a message dated 1/16/14 14 25 40, SOBill at aol.com              writes:

Dash Lights: Replacement                for 2W OEM bulbs  5W 'OSRAM' bulb p/n is 2825 W2 1x9,5d                 (made in Germany)  VOW, BMW, Porsche  

                5W vice 3W Dash Bulbs: XENON-A7742 or E89Z-13B765-A from                Ford

              >>>And what Bill forgot to mention is that these              bulbs are readily available at any auto parts store.

              Oddly, what is next to impossible to find is the              stock-style 2w bulbs.

              I went through my car and upgraded all the bulbs to the 5w              style (the small gauges use the same bulbs as the larger              ones).  I then found that one of the small gauges (ammeter              I think) was much brighter than the others, so I opened it              up and retrofitted the original 2w bulb there.  Now they              are all the same, and just as bright as they need to be,              no brighter.

              Cars have dimmer switches on the instrument lights because              bright interior lights is NOT what you want on a dark              road.  Driving in the city, with bright lights all around,              yes.  But when you are in the middle of nowhere, you need              to dim your interior lights so that you aren't blinding               yourself and compromising your night vision and your              ability to see properly outside.

              Mike            !DSPAM:52d88f05201382199229964!          

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