My advice is to make them all come on at once... don't do any sweeping. I have a knocklink in my car which has 2 green LED's, 2 yellow, and 1 red. As knock gets worse the appropriate LED's go off. The problem with this is the different colors and positions (since they are so close together) requires you to concentrate on what's going on with the knocklink. You can make them sweep somehow, but make sure when you reach that shift point something dramatic happens that really sets it off.

 

Yeah thats how we all do it last I checked.

I guess its mostly cause i want to have a get ready to shift and a shift so that its more consistent.

If something has your attention and you are looking at it the more time you have to be prepared to shift the better. Thats where consistency comes into play.

 

its not a broom , no sweeping going on here , they all come on at the same time just like a normal shiftlight , this one just fits in the pillar

 

OK, that's great... I was reading fast and must have misread something because I swear someone suggested some type of sweeping. Anywho... now just make it as bright as possible.

 

I think what it mostly is going to come down to is the market you are looking to sell to. You gotta think about that before using what you think is gonna be best.

From the looks of it you aren't marketing to the domestic crowd, and the faster half of the racing scene. They are more of then than not happy with the single staged bulb cause they don't have time to pay attention to accessories. If they even have to pay attention to a shift light (Ex. automatics)

Your market is going to be to the Pep Boys special crowd. They are the ones that are going to buy cobalt series gauges and want extra blinky things. If thats what they want and thats your target market you are going to sell more product. Give them what they want. If it has one more ligh that comes on that makes it better than the rest.

I'm not trying to joke anyone or anything like that but its the truth. Watch that high rev tuners crap and you will see.

 

Wow , you totally missed the ball on that one , you need to go through and read all my posts again , this is by no means meant to be blinky or anything ... this is a simple stand alone shift light that fits in the guage pod and eliminates having to drill holes or mount into your cars dash ... as far as cobalt series being "rice and high rev tuner crap" you have once again missed the ball . the cobalt series is one of the top end guage lines from autometer , outranks just about all the others , it has a different and stand out "ish" scheme but is by no means in the pep boys crowd ... i challenge you to visit any local pep-boys location and i bet you they will not have one cobalt series guage , for the simple fact that they are expensive and out of most peoples reach ... pep boys will on the other hand have an aray of Autometer Pro-comp Ultralite series guages which are more in grasp of the market ... not to mention the actual APC guages ( but i wont go there cause thats too easy ) ... my market is right here , you just misconcepted ...

 

Put a poll up on this board. See who is going to be willing to spend extra money on a shift light that fits in the pod thats got leds and matches. I bet you your crowd of me's or yes's will be the show half of the board if there is that much on the board.

When I looked into a shift light I looked for one that A. did what it was supposed to do and B. was the cheapest possible. It simply isn't a piece that anyone in the go fast department is going to spend extra money on. That narrows your market to the afformentioned crowd. Like it or not thats how it goes.

Being blinky is not what we were suggesting. Just a dual stage light on and off. Nothing ricey about it. Extra poinits in a car show for the shift light that has two stages.

 

Will cost the same amount as a standard shift light ... it has the same internals and all just has to have LED's cause all the circuitry along with full sized light bulb wouldnt fit into a guage ( there would be one to match each series ) but i value your opinion ... i will see where it goes ... thanks

 

I just checked prices of the different shift lights. They aren't to far off. I was under the impression that the led lights were more expensive than the old style. I guess thats changed.

If they are in the ball park of the current lights then go for it. Worse comes to worse changes can be made.

 

yep , in fact autometer sells an LED insert for their pro-shift light , it consist of 4 5 mm clustered LED's , they light up a few thousandsth of a second faster too ...