Gauge Lighting

[NC325iC]

^IIRC - the human eye is most sensitive to red-ish light, the color of the sun. As I understand the engineer's thinking is that since the eye is most sensitive to that color, you need less brightness of that color to be able to see something (such as the dash) and as a result, your pupils will be larger, letting in more of the light from the road into your eye and you'll see the road better....blah, blah, blah...I know the space shuttle uses it, and I want ot say fighter jets do to(?) Anyways...

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looks like Darth Vader's bathroom. ;)

Thats what i thought too, thats why i googled it, all i could find was green.

UNTIL NOWWW!!!!

http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/6d.html

if you go down a bit theres a portion that reads

The cone cells of the human eye are sensitive to 3 wavelength ranges which the eye interprets as blue (narrow, with a peak near 419 nm), green (broader, with a peak near 531 nm) and red (also broad, with a peak near 558 nm, which is actually more like yellow!):

then shows a graph with the colors and their intensity.

[Aptyp]

what are those blue things?

[EN318isPDX]

Look out there window, and look out yours, a bit different, also notice those are old ass screens and are not ricer blue LED"s

[Aptyp]

they aren't LED's... and they are much easier for me to drive with... Especially, when take 8 15 hours trips each year.

[EN318isPDX]

they aren't LED's... and they are much easier for me to drive with... Especially, when take 8 15 hours trips each year.

So you say, i found it quiet easy to drive without dash lights......................

[GunMetalGrey]

I am going for the look that the interior of our 2010 hyundai sante fe has, and if you call that a ricer, I don't even know what I would say. With the lights dimmed it is actually more of a purple, which is nice at night, but the blue is nice for daytime.

[EN318isPDX]

I am going for the look that the interior of our 2010 hyundai sante fe has, and if you call that a ricer, I don't even know what I would say. With the lights dimmed it is actually more of a purple, which is nice at night, but the blue is nice for daytime.

Don't forget the matching "underglow"

[george graves]

what are those blue things?

reading is fundamental.

[GunMetalGrey]

Don't forget the matching "underglow"

Really?


Now anyone who thinks that is ricey, should have their head checked! Classy is more like it

[accident]

If by classy, you mean lame.

[Evan12]

red is the color that least disturbs the human eye. that is why on naval vessels they light up the coridors red at night so the watch can see where they are going and it does not disturb people sleeping in their bunks. you can also go into a room that has the red lighting, then go into a dark room and you eyes take hardly any time to adjust, unlike when you use a normal flashlight and try to do the same thing and you cant see for about 15-20 seconds. red is also picked up by the eye very well like someone said in this thread as well as blue, but blue disturbs the eye more and it takes longer to adjust at night after looking at it.

[GunMetalGrey]

If by classy, you mean lame.

Do you ever have anything positive to say? sure as hell doesn't seem like it

[Evan12]

whatever, I hated amber... I spent a lot of time driving cross country and I had to make the switch. Got a set that lights up in amber, green and blue. Always switch to green when driving into the night, my don't hurt at all.


And amber has nothing to do with BMW engineers choosing it as the best color.

what gauges are those?

[ChaseN]

I am going for the look that the interior of our 2010 hyundai sante fe has...

Sorry, I hardly ever get in on these things, but I just LOL'd pretty hard on that one...

[george graves]

red is the color that least disturbs the human eye.[/PHP]

I don't even know what that means. Let the record show that this thread is hereby deemed gay.