The RGB dash project

[Ivan141]

It depends, I rather doubt any PCB's for an ae86 dash (if I can teach myself the skillset necessary to pull them off) would fit another dash easily since there is bugger all space inside these clusters.
Having seen some other project where 2 pcb's could easily be installed inside a cluster I thought it shouldn't be to difficult, but yesterday's mockup session showed I would have to make at least 3 small oddly shaped boards, with specific length standoffs in strategic positions to keep them roughly at the same height.

Separate lighting for the needle's is almost out of the question given the space constraints imposed by the housing. There is maybe 2mm of space between the dial faces and the top of the tacho and speedo drives that is usually occupied by acrylic lightguides which bring light from the bulbs to the needles. I might be able to cram in some especially small smd led's around the needle shafts if I ditch the lightguides, but this will probably 'bleed' a lot of light out to the dial faces. I am going to try to get it done, since the original lightguides get in the way of the pcb's I'm planning for the main backlighting.