Need To Dim My Boost Gauge

[Tony de Wonderful]

It's a Blitz mechanical one with a mirror finish.

Needs to be lit up to see anything during the day.

Thing is at night it is too bright.

It's powered off the ignition at the moment.

How can I dim it during the night?

Resistor and switch?

[Munkyb0y]

not sure about the blitz, but many of these smoke face type that need to be lit up during the day, often have an extra wire that hooks up to a light source. ie. illuminated ring around the cig lighter. when they detect the lights are on (night time) the gauge light dims accordingly.

maybe yours has this extra wire too, and you just missed it, or didnt hook it up correctly?

Edited February 23, 2010 by Munkyb0y

[Tony de Wonderful]

not sure about the blitz, but many of these smoke face type that need to be lit up during the day, often have an extra wire that hooks up to a light source. ie. illuminated ring around the cig lighter. when they detect the lights are on (night time) the gauge light dims accordingly.

maybe yours has this extra wire too, and you just missed it, or didnt hook it up correctly?

It definately only came with two wires; power and ground.

[Tony de Wonderful]

I've got a motor speed controller kit from Jaycar.

[Craved]

potentiometer inline

or

a switched resister run off a relay thats triggered by your illumination wires from the dash to achieve what munkyboy mentioned - ie dims itself when lights are on

[Tony de Wonderful]

potentiometer inline

or

a switched resister run off a relay thats triggered by your illumination wires from the dash to achieve what munkyboy mentioned - ie dims itself when lights are on

I drive with headlights on in the day.

[Craved]

I drive with headlights on in the day.

yeah i do that too, thought about it but thought it was a rare occurance -

[jrm]

Never quite understood why some drivers like to drive with headlights on during the day; As another driver, I just find it annoying and un-necessary. If you want extra visibility for your car, wouldn't mere parkers suffice?

That said, I'm also a person who hates people who use headlights during that period when it's just getting dark, and they could just get away with parkers (Anyone ever notice almost nobody ever *uses* parkers then though?)

[Craved]

yeah cool, in NSW there was even a campaign to encoruage driving with lights on during the day.

how you could find it annoying is beside the point of this thread.

OP: just run a potentiometer then, dial it down at night.

[Tony de Wonderful]

Never quite understood why some drivers like to drive with headlights on during the day; As another driver, I just find it annoying and un-necessary. If you want extra visibility for your car, wouldn't mere parkers suffice?

Visibility is a good thing.

I've been running headlights day and night since I did a defensive driving course in the middle east and was told to.

[Tony de Wonderful]

Double post

Edited February 23, 2010 by Tony de Wonderful