Originally posted by edxmon

Originally posted by ez nice work Dave, that's a cool video too. Are you doing the 3rd taillight now? how are you coming with the microcontroller? I have a guage cluster conversion in the mix too, but I'm using red EL film instead of LEDs. gotta give you some competition, he he, keep you on your toes. j/k that IC looks sweet.

Hmmm ive been looking into Electro Luminescence aswell, tell me (if you dont mind) how you plan on running that setup. I was going to use tubing for some accent lighting. I already have red LEDs in the cluster so it glows red...BUT BRIGHTER IS BETTER! hehehe keep me updated on that EZ!

yea, just source some generic RED EL film (tons of this stuff on the net), and then design a guage pattern on your computer. you can print this off onto a clear transparency, which then overlays the EL film. Since this setup is really thin, it will lay right over your existing guage cluster with very little modification. Option 2 is to cut out some chrome/vinyl decals to place directly on the EL film. it will look pretty trick afterwards. I was doing this with an "eclipse" motif too, so the center of the guage would be black and the outer periphery would be a glowing red circle. this would match the rearview mirrors I'm working on. I'm doing this so that my eventual setup will have all the guages look exactly the same (the stock guage cluster, and aftermarket guages)