Date:         Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:26:15 -0700
Reply-To:     Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Plasma gauge set
Comments: To: kenneth wilford <kenwilfy@gmail.com>
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I like them a lot and love to have them in my van... but I am scared to
remove the instrument cluster to install the plasma gauges... Why? because
I still have the blue ribbon in there and everything's working... so once I
open it I may need to replace the blue foil which will cost about $200.00
on the top of the plasma gauges... So as it is now I leave it alone.

Thanks for the info.

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:04 AM kenneth wilford <kenwilfy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bruce, LED bulbs must be installed a certain way to work.  In other words
> they need to be installed so that plus matches plug and minus matches
> minus.  If they aren't they won't work.  Normal bulbs don't have this
> issue.  So if you can't get LED instrument lights to work, turn them around
> and they should work.
>
> Ken
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:16 AM Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just wanted to report I spent the weekend ploddingly installing a plasma
> > gauge set and really like the results.  The instructions were pretty
> > straight forward and luckily everything came apart easily and I didn't
> > further depreciate the brittle plastic gauge and instrument housing or
> the
> > blue plastic ribbon.
> >
> > The only thing that I couldn't get working were the replacement LED
> bulbs -
> > so I kept the old style  bulbs in place instead.  The plasma gauges are
> > backlit so it doesn't really matter.
> >
> > This is a really nice upgrade.
> >
> > https://t3technique.com/electrical/plasma-gauge-set/
> >
> > Bruce
> >
>