extra gauge lighting

[Pu241]

LED's are probably 10X, or more, efficient at converting electricity to light than incandescent bulbs.
This mean way less heat, more light, less power used.

I was wrong:

http://www.physorg.com/preview135517409.html

LED's are only 4x's more efficient!

[Festiva_tunner]

here is a pic of LEDs installed - mine are blue of course and the tac and pilar guages are red LED

[ejp2fast]

I think i may go with these:

http://tinyurl.com/8pla3d

do you think thats enough lighting?

[snq]

i took a brake light off of a semi and wired it in parallel with my existing lights

[GenevaDirt]

if you pull the light bar off there there is a piece of plexiglass that is colored...take it out...also I believe the non tach onse have the four bulbs....I put the ones from the non tach speedo in mine without the piece of glass....I have to keep it turned down on the lowest setting because it is so bright.

here is what it looks like...

[91blufestiva]

That looks really good.

[ejp2fast]

instead of start a new thread, i'll add to this.
I got a 9 LED strip that runs off of 12V. Now, as I have had my cluster out before, the stock lights (4 small bulbs) have 2 wires that are connected to the top of the guage cluster in the back with philips screws.
my question is, can i disconnect the 2 wires philips screws and remove my stock wires and bulb combo, and put my 12V LED's into that same 2 wire lead? or do i need to splice from a different location? i hope this makes sense.

[ejp2fast]

sam.1956 answered it in this thread:

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19468

[ejp2fast]

as a follow up, at the top of the back of the instrument cluster, the 2 blub screws are "+ ILL" and "- ILL".. pretty straight forward.. i got my green LED strip installed this weekend, but i glued it too low as i can see the LED's when driving... i'll try to take some pics of when i 'redo' it to raise the strip up...