'02 Tahoe custom cluster

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Stepper motors? That's '03 and up. My '02 is air-core motors (99-02). What year do you have? Because the needles are different between the two clusters. I got mine from Ebay I think
 

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The morphing to red on the tach is AWESOME! Gonna do the same for the speedo? Full red around 80 or 100 seems appropriate.

Is it a lens thing or is it something triggering an RGB controller based on pointer position?

Did you do anything for the odometer/gear selector display or is it still teal green?
 
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I bought some transparent blue stick-on film used for photography lights to put over the odometer area, but it's not really dark enough to do much so I'm gonna have to try a darker one. It helped slightly. And the color changing needles: are really white needles. I have a blue led positioned for the lower half of the gauge, and of course red for the upper. And I blacked out a lot of the underside of the actual needle base so it helps to only picked up the light in a small area (to help avoid a purple needle for half it's sweep) Yes, I am still contimplating doing a sensor/trigger set-up with a controller to actually switch the LEDs on/off accordingly as the needles sweep. Hadn't gotten that far. Just recently finished my head swap and DIC install and probably looking at needing a new altenator soon. Bouncing battery needle :/
 

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I bought some transparent blue stick-on film used for photography lights to put over the odometer area, but it's not really dark enough to do much so I'm gonna have to try a darker one. It helped slightly. And the color changing needles: are really white needles. I have a blue led positioned for the lower half of the gauge, and of course red for the upper. And I blacked out a lot of the underside of the actual needle base so it helps to only picked up the light in a small area (to help avoid a purple needle for half it's sweep) Yes, I am still contimplating doing a sensor/trigger set-up with a controller to actually switch the LEDs on/off accordingly as the needles sweep. Hadn't gotten that far. Just recently finished my head swap and DIC install and probably looking at needing a new altenator soon. Bouncing battery needle :/
Why not just put a 2nd or even 3rd layer of blue tint on? Might make it dark enough for you.
 
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I tried that. I actually tried like 8 layers once! But it starts to lose clarity for the display with that many.
 

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Why not just put a 2nd or even 3rd layer of blue tint on? Might make it dark enough for you.

I tried that. I actually tried like 8 layers once! But it starts to lose clarity for the display with that many.
Exactly. On mine, by the time I got it blue enough by adding 2-3 layers of blue tint film I could no longer read the odometer during the day so I just removed it all.
 

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I bought some transparent blue stick-on film used for photography lights to put over the odometer area, but it's not really dark enough to do much so I'm gonna have to try a darker one. It helped slightly. And the color changing needles: are really white needles. I have a blue led positioned for the lower half of the gauge, and of course red for the upper. And I blacked out a lot of the underside of the actual needle base so it helps to only picked up the light in a small area (to help avoid a purple needle for half it's sweep) Yes, I am still contimplating doing a sensor/trigger set-up with a controller to actually switch the LEDs on/off accordingly as the needles sweep. Hadn't gotten that far. Just recently finished my head swap and DIC install and probably looking at needing a new altenator soon. Bouncing battery needle :/

I don't know how the photography filter compares, but I used blue window tint years ago on my '02 S10. Gave it a bit of an "icy" blue color. I don't remember how many layers I used- two, maybe three. It was taken back around '05-'06 with a 3.2mp camera, so the quality and color might not be so accurate. It wasn't this blurry in real life, for sure:

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I don't know how the photography filter compares, but I used blue window tint years ago on my '02 S10. Gave it a bit of an "icy" blue color. I don't remember how many layers I used- two, maybe three. It was taken back around '05-'06 with a 3.2mp camera, so the quality and color might not be so accurate. It wasn't this blurry in real life, for sure:

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From the film you gave me. I only used 1 layer.20180923_132654.jpg20180924_200044.jpg20180923_142918.jpg
Looks bluer in person.
 

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