Date:         Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:41:19 -0500
Reply-To:     David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
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From:         David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Subject:      Re: Green digital clock (from Mars)
Comments: To: Ian Butler <ian@BLUEMOON.HPLX.NET>
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Ian Butler wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 JordanVw@aol.com wrote:
>
> > does it make blue tint?  i was thinking of doing that with my cabby that has
> > the green plastic covering the lights..changing it to blue plastic..
>
> Well, I tried two layers of the plastic to make a proper blue tint, but it
> was really too dim to see well at that point.  One layer did exactly what
> I was after -- dimmed the lighting slightly, but corrected for the
> incandescent brown tint that I really disliked.  So it's more white now
> than it was before.

If you bypass the dimmer switch you can probably get more brightness,
though at the expense of not being able to adjust it.  I get the
impression a lot of people never use any setting except 'full bright'
anyway.

Personally, I like to dim my dash lights a bit when I'm driving on dark
country roads, as my eyes adjust to the darkness.  My Volvo sorta thwarts
that by having a massively bright high beam indicator light, though. ;)


David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia
'86 Volvo 240DL wagon