Instrument Panel Colour

On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:13:38 -0600, Ray O wrote:
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> "bornfree" <selburn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1165720532.239712.176200@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com...[color=green]
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>> Thanks Hachiroku for the info. Should I use the 194 0r 168 for the
>> display? The difference in wattage means a difference in the amount of
>> heat generated. I know that the license plate and trunk bulbs are 194.
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> Do not use a higher wattage bulb! The higher heat generated can melt
> surrounding plastic, blow fuses, and damage wiring.[/color]


Nah, Ray! I have been using the higher watt bulbs with no problem so far.
The traces on the IP are big enough to handle the wattage (shoot! I bet
they could handle TEN watts!) and the IP and the bulb holders have shown
no damage after 2 years.

I don't do too much without checking things out in advance... ;)

Ray O wrote:[color=blue]
> I am not familiar with bulb covers, however, there are tinted replacement
> bulbs available, usually blue and red. The red supposedly preserves your
> night vision, and blue light supposedly makes blood more visible.[/color]

Local motorfactors near mine sell red,green blue and orange bulb covers
for all sizes of dash bulbs, at about 50p each. Theyre like little
coloured condoms.Or you could buy some of the LED bulb replacements now
available [url]http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/default.php?cPath=44_61[/url] (No
affiliation and Ive not tried them, though I intend to change my heater
controls soon)

Blue makes blood more visible? How does that work?

"Coyoteboy" <coyoteboyuk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1165838172.201200.268060@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
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> Ray O wrote:[color=green]
>> I am not familiar with bulb covers, however, there are tinted replacement
>> bulbs available, usually blue and red. The red supposedly preserves your
>> night vision, and blue light supposedly makes blood more visible.[/color]
>
> Local motorfactors near mine sell red,green blue and orange bulb covers
> for all sizes of dash bulbs, at about 50p each. Theyre like little
> coloured condoms.Or you could buy some of the LED bulb replacements now
> available [url]http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/default.php?cPath=44_61[/url] (No
> affiliation and Ive not tried them, though I intend to change my heater
> controls soon)
>
> Blue makes blood more visible? How does that work?
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I don't know how blue light makes blood more visible, I just read that claim
in a SureFire flashlight ad. My guess is that it has something to do with
light wavelengths.
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Ray O
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rokigawaATtristarassociatesDOTcom "Ray O" writes:
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> I don't know how blue light makes blood more visible, I just
> read that claim in a SureFire flashlight ad. My guess is that
> it has something to do with light wavelengths.[/color]

AFAIK, it concerns how red objects, in this case the blood, tend
to absorb non-red colours more than red (else they wouldn't look
red <g>). Human skin (even that of dark-skinned people) gets an
appreciable amount of its colour from blood flowing just beneath
its surface. A truly "white" person is bloodless. Some of this
runs in visible large vessels, some in capillaries. The clearly
defined vessels tend to look dark beside bluer (due to reflected
blue light) skin elsewhere.
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Andrew Stephenson