Bulbs

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The windshield is where the reflection is. Bright LED bulbs makes is worse.

The bulb type (LED, incandescent, etc) makes no difference. It's just a product of the angle of the gauges and slope of the windshield. The windshield will reflect any light from the Speedometer and Tachometer that makes them bright enough to see at night.

I've ordered a sample of that 3M louvered anti-glare film; anxious to see if it makes a difference. I'll let y'all know.

which type did you order?

Also, is your car a two pod of latter dash?
I will be very interested in your opinion.

A second benifit would be blocking the passenger from seeing the gauges

I ordered the ALCF-P as it's designed to go on the outside of an LCD, rather than in the backlight of an LCD (ALCF-A). Sounded better suited to being mounted on the outside of the gauges. We'll see when it arrives.

And I have a 2-pod dash.

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Originally posted by T.Solo:
I installed a 1K-Ohm potentiometer in place of the stock rheostat when I installed my Protizmo. It works good.
Steve

I received a new re-programmed chip to go in my existing Protizmo and an additional Pantera specific unit to control the lamps above the center console gauges.
The stock dimmers work great now. The off part of the dimmer works and dims from faint to full on. Ed has created a new version, the G3.
http://www.protizmo.com/Store/

Highly recommended when using stock dimmers to control gauge leds which are much brighter, consume less power, create less heat and no need now to drill an additional hole in your gauge to mount another bulb.

Great for Ed to step up and create something for us. Support your vendors!!

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I ordered the ALCF-P as it's designed to go on the outside of an LCD, rather than in the backlight of an LCD (ALCF-A). Sounded better suited to being mounted on the outside of the gauges. We'll see when it arrives.

FWIW, the sample I ordered never came.

Hi Garth,
Many thanks for the follow up. Did you find any other solutions?
Cheers, Tim.

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Did you find any other solutions?

No. The issue is so minor that I haven't followed up on it. I'm just so thrilled to be able to see my gauges after so many years that I don't care if there's some reflection in the windshield.

As I looked into the louvered films a bit more, it looks like the privacy computer screens are made of the same stuff; if I remember the next time I see these at the store I'll get one and try it - just have to remember to mount it 90-degrees to how it would sit on a monitor.