possible new product...

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:26 am

Ok, so i'm sure SOME of you have seen on SRTForums in the Lighting Mods section that people are having trouble with the SuperStar and SuperStar SuperWide LED Bulbs going bad quickly. I think i may have a solution that's not a bad price, lasts a lot longer than those bulbs, and comes with a decent warantee to boot...

The projected price of this is about or a little bit more than the cost of buying a complete guage cluster lighting and HVAC lighting kit from Auto Lumination (though my product will only be for the cluster), as a price comparison.

The effect with the Auto Lumination bulbs is you get the nice BLUE color instead of the greenish stock color, but then you lose your redline, and with the Auto Lumination bulbs, you get "hot-spots" in the guages where there's more light in some areas than in others.

Auto Lumination carries no warantee on the original SuperStar bulbs, but supposedly will warantee the new style, even though i've seen cases of either burning out quickly anyways. The lifespan i've seen from people on SRTForums ranges from 2 WEEKS to 6 MONTHS before they fry.....at $8-$10ea i dont think you wanna replace them every few weeks, lol, i know i dont!

MY product however is not bulbs, its a complete circuit board that would sit inside of the guage cluster housing, and has a bunch of surface mounted LED's on it, with BLUE for the numbering, RED for the redline and warning areas, and WHITE for a little added Needle light. Projected price is about $75, would come with most likely a 1year warranty against defects and bad led's, would give you the smooth even blue color everyone wants, and have a much longer life span than the other guy

oh btw, 2gn HVAC boards to follow soon after

Ok everyone, lets see what YOU think, I put this in the interior section because i'm not selling it..........................................yet

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:32 am

Sounds like a good idea to me, since the blue L.E.D.s i have in my cluster right now took away all my reds, and is barly bright enough for me to see the numbers at night... I might be down, after I see a final product.

Oh... and umm... shouldn't you be getting the brake light and dome lights done first?

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:15 am

i'd be interested in these as well... opi, i'm sure the brake and domes will be out to us waiting customers soon. i've done a bit of business with nitehawk before, and have never had a problem with him yet.

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:29 am

TheRandom1 wrote:i'd be interested in these as well... opi, i'm sure the brake and domes will be out to us waiting customers soon. i've done a bit of business with nitehawk before, and have never had a problem with him yet.

haha, so have i.
Hell, I didn't really have to "pay" for my products... well, I did in a previous GB that went REALLY bad... and matt is still owing me for them.

I just like to harass people.

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:31 am

ahhh yes, i remember that one. atleast we know that it wasn't his fault though, and that he's still a great guy to do business with, haha

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:24 pm

Bump, great vendor.....
Backs up what he sells to the "T"....

timplett · Post by **timplett** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:00 pm

I would be interested in one of those.

riffers · Post by **riffers** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:27 pm

i'd be interested Matt, especially since my POS indiglo eGay cluster lights burned out on me

03_SXT · Post by **03_SXT** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:05 pm

I am in for this! This will my my life easy, I won't have to put in the damn reverse glow gauges (which look cheap anyways...). It'll make my life easy when it comes time to buy matching gauges as well!

Make sure that you don't offer more than one color,

.

Let's see some pictures, and then I will purchase it.

Like someone mentioned before, this guy is a great person and vendor. Is true to his word, and can be completely trusted...

~Amit

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:10 pm

Thanks for the support guys

i'm still working some stuff out with the factories, i wanna find out who can make what i need, the best, and for the best price. i'm looking into options OTHER than a solid stiff circuit board, i've seen circuit "boards" that are actually 2 plastic layers with the needed circuitry in between them, THIS would be PERFECT for this situation where space is limited...

i'll keep yall posted as to what i find out

henry00x · Post by **henry00x** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:10 am

i would want a HVAC one for sure in BLue

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:32 am

the hvac would be all stock colors. blue for cold and settings, red for hot. basically the point of these is stock look, but with better color

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:16 am

Opi wrote:I might be down, after I see a final product.

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:37 am

So I was thinking while driving my g/fs neon... about the whole gauge cluster w/tach, w/o tach... are you going to be making boards for each different design?

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:11 am

i'm basically going to try to make a "universal" unit that will work for neons with/without the tach, and srt4's

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:15 pm

come on guys, i know we all have a lot of friends, spread the word about this, if there's enough demand, it WILL be made!

srt4evah · Post by **srt4evah** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:38 pm

I'll pay $75 for these for sure!

Will they illuminate the stock redline and needles well?

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:51 pm

MY product however is not bulbs, its a complete circuit board that would sit inside of the guage cluster housing, and has a bunch of surface mounted LED's on it, with BLUE for the numbering, RED for the redline and warning areas, and WHITE for a little added Needle light. Projected price is about $75, would come with most likely a 1year warranty against defects and bad led's, would give you the smooth even blue color everyone wants, and have a much longer life span than the other guy

yep

srt4evah · Post by **srt4evah** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:48 pm

Sweet, let me know where to send the money when they're ready =]

Post by **Diablo0** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:39 am

I'd be very interested in this once the HVAC board is out so I can do both at the same time and have them match without people asking me "why is that a different color than this?" lol

BUY IT! lol

Kevin_GP · Post by **Kevin_GP** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:33 am

Count me in

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:49 am

i'm still voting for you to do it damnit

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:55 am

lets get a list going of how many people would be interested. i added it to my groupbuy list, please add your names: http://www.xtremeracingandsound.com/groupbuy.php

its the last one on the page...

EDIT:

This is not an officlal group buy yet, ONLY AN INTEREST LIST. there is NO OBLIGATION TO BUY

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:46 am

well folks, there's now THIRTY PEOPLE on the list...and only 6 of them are us.....

i know there has to be more than 6 people on here who would buy this...

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:30 am

so that means you'll be doing this, right?

Kevin_GP · Post by **Kevin_GP** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:52 pm

Im sure once you make the product and it turns out good, alot more people will buy them, esspically if they are plug in play. A picture is worth a thousand words I guess is the right saying in this case. I was waiting for someone to solve this led disaster. If you do the HVAC to match that would be killer as well.

+1 Nitehawk!

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:14 pm

i'm definatly doing it, there's now 36 names!

i ordered the led's to make a prototype today, so i expect that list of names to nearly triple once its posted

Kevin_GP · Post by **Kevin_GP** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:51 pm

Any updates???

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:18 am

50 names now, board design is nearly complete

the way its being done though is changing a little. I've learned that teh little tabs on the back of the guage face are directly responsible for the needles lighting up, and hitting these tabs is critical. I will be including led bulbs for hitting those tabs, and the board for lighting up the speedo and tach.

phenomeneon21 · Post by **phenomeneon21** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:14 am

if only you were doing one in red for the gauge cluster, i'd jump right on it...blue just doesnt do it for me, haha.