A question for white dial people

[mdrc]

Do your instrument lights take some reading in the dark with white dials? Mine have a dull penumbra of light around them when lights are on, but you can't see any of the detail on the dials!!! Is this normal? Not sure the police would regard this as a an accpetable excuse!

[bigdods]

White TVR dials, white backlight never had any problems reading them....well apart from those moments when my left knee knocks the button that is...

[scotty_d]

Mine are white and have no problem reading at day or night. well except when that button gets pressed by the left knee as well

[Krautchimaera]

I also have white dials, my revcounter looks bright and is easy to read. My speedo though is a lot darker, especially on the left side.
closer inspection showed that the facia ( round disc with numbers on, I am not sure about the english word for it)is not central, but more to the left, so there is a much smaller gap for the light to come through.
I always wanted to dismantle the instrument, but never came round doing it

[2Munkys]

Nup, no problems. I guess you've cecked all the bulbs for serviceabilty; I think some have fitted a bulb of greater wattage to resolve similar issues.

[900T-R]

No problems - for sure, tach illumination is somewhat brighter than that of the speedo and those standard bulbs do not give the brightest light colour (they look like 19th centruy candles or the vacuum tubes of my home audio amp next to the Pioneer's 'white' back lighting - nice 'n cosy ) but all the dials are clearly legible. Early Chim with the black-bezelled ETB instruments.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

mdrc said:

penumbra

What a great word!

[chr1sb]

Krautchimaera said:

I also have white dials, my revcounter looks bright and is easy to read. My speedo though is a lot darker, especially on the left side.
closer inspection showed that the facia ( round disc with numbers on, I am not sure about the english word for it)is not central, but more to the left, so there is a much smaller gap for the light to come through.
I always wanted to dismantle the instrument, but never came round doing it

Believe it or not, the speedo was designed to be darker than the rest ! (Only one bulb fitted). The thinking was (apparently) that this is the least important instrument, ie you should be paying more attention to the rev counter. Not sure I buy that, but there you go.
There is a hole at the bottom of the speedo (at least there is on mine) into which you can fit another bulb if you feel the need. Plan to upgrade mine to blue LED's in the future anyway.

Chris