<p dir="ltr">Red is the best color for instrument lights, something about rods and cones in the eye that don't react to the red spectrum.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My 80's BMW 325 had orangeish/red dash lights, best ever.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Michael Shortt</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 17, 2014 11:08 PM, "Asa Jay Laughton" <<a href="mailto:asajay@asajay.com">asajay@asajay.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Red light, I love it.<br>
This is what bugs me the -most- in all my other daily driver cars.<br>
<br>
In my 1971 Mach I, the high beam indicator is RED, in fact, it's a
very neatly crafted Mustang running horse, that's red, in the
speedometer dial. It's noticeable and sexy, and certainly not
blinding.<br>
<br>
In the other cars, it's this God-awful bright cold Blue light that
literally blinds me anytime I switch on the high beams. I can have
the dash lights dialed down nicely to get a good view of the country
roads around here and when I switch on the high beams... BAM...
can't see damn thing again from the stickin' indicator glaring at
me.<br>
<br>
Most times I don't even drive with the high beams anymore, even on
deserted back country roads because I hate that it's not RED.<br>
<br>
This makes me wonder if I can get a set of RED LED dash lights for
the Pantera.<br>
<br>
Whoever designed it so the dash lights had to be brighter than the
surface of the sun should be shot!<br>
<br>
Asa Jay<br>
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On 1/17/2014 8:52 AM, Jeff Detrich wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MikeLDrew@aol.com" target="_blank">MikeLDrew@aol.com</a>></span>
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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.</blockquote>
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Red light doesn't affect your night vision and that is why
BMWs used to have red dash lights. </div>
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