If you could change the color of your gauge faces

[DucatiTorrey]

696??? white??

[He Man]

what

[DucatiTorrey]

the 696 dash is orange. the whole thing is digital. is it possible to change it to white, like a 1098?

[He Man]

open it up and report back.

[DucatiTorrey]

hey now, I'm no Guinea pig

[He Man]

girly men....pshhh 

[xcaptainxbloodx]

I would change it to white or a dark purple and change the face to either black or CF (probably CF if it could look proper, it would suck if the black faded.)

[OwnyTony]

I may make the display a slightly brighter and red-er as in less orange.  The reason for not changing the color to blue (which is cooler) is for function.  Blue kills your night vision and its even worse looking through your helmet (more glare). not as bad in a car because you dont have some plastic/glass to look through (which makes glare worse).  For function sake, i would either make the amber color a little brighter or red-er

[NAKID]

Why does blue kill your night vision? I have never experienced that...

[Statler]

ok...that's a pretty cool mod for the bike.   Nice job, HeMan

[OwnyTony]

Why does blue kill your night vision? I have never experienced that...

dependent on how bright it is but "scientifically" (and i have to verify) , i was under the impression that the further away from red, the brighter the light and blue being the furthest visible light color.  Hence using red light to read stuff in the dark if you want to "save" your night vision or the dark room in a photo both having a red light so it dont mess up the photos but there is red light so that you can see.

I notice on my s2r800 that when i turn on the high beams, and the blue indicator light comes on, its bright enough to darken my night vision. 

But also, from experience a blue incandescent light is worse for your night vision than a blue led light so an led may not be as bad.

If im talking bs, than please point it out.  Dont want misinformation.

[RB]

snip...
I notice on my s2r800 that when i turn on the high beams, and the blue indicator light comes on, its bright enough to darken my night vision. 

from Wikipedia:
Biological night vision

In biological night vision, molecules of rhodopsin in the rods of the eye undergo a change in shape as light is absorbed by them. Rhodopsin is the chemical that allows night-vision, and is extremely sensitive to light. Exposed to a spectrum of light, the pigment immediately bleaches, and it takes about 30 minutes to regenerate fully, but most of the adaptation occurs within the first five or ten minutes in the dark. Rhodopsin in the human rods is less sensitive to the longer red wavelengths of light, so many people use red light to help preserve night vision as it only slowly depletes the eye's rhodopsin stores in the rods and instead is viewed by the cones.

The blue Hi-Beam LED is bright, so i took a piece of tinted plastic and laid it over top of the blue lens inside the cluster. It made a noticeable difference. It s still blue, and still bright enough to see it is on in the day light.
And as far as glare goes, and i am not talking about the color of LEDs here:
Bright dash lights create glare, period. Try turning your dash lights all the way up in your car on a dark night, drive down an unlit road, then turn you dash lights up just so you can read everything clearly....you should notice a big difference from the glare bouncing off your face/cheekbones. Or you could put on that fancy black stuff ball players use to cut the sun's glare....road warrior style. Seriously, the visor isn't helping the glare from the dash.
with that said, i don't mind the orange, since i don't see that color on many other vehicles, but if i were to change it would be to red, mainly because of the above statement.

[OwnyTony]

from Wikipedia:
Biological night vision

In biological night vision, molecules of rhodopsin in the rods of the eye undergo a change in shape as light is absorbed by them. Rhodopsin is the chemical that allows night-vision, and is extremely sensitive to light. Exposed to a spectrum of light, the pigment immediately bleaches, and it takes about 30 minutes to regenerate fully, but most of the adaptation occurs within the first five or ten minutes in the dark. Rhodopsin in the human rods is less sensitive to the longer red wavelengths of light, so many people use red light to help preserve night vision as it only slowly depletes the eye's rhodopsin stores in the rods and instead is viewed by the cones.

The blue Hi-Beam LED is bright, so i took a piece of tinted plastic and laid it over top of the blue lens inside the cluster. It made a noticeable difference. It s still blue, and still bright enough to see it is on in the day light.
And as far as glare goes, and i am not talking about the color of LEDs here:
Bright dash lights create glare, period. Try turning your dash lights all the way up in your car on a dark night, drive down an unlit road, then turn you dash lights up just so you can read everything clearly....you should notice a big difference from the glare bouncing off your face/cheekbones. Or you could put on that fancy black stuff ball players use to cut the sun's glare....road warrior style. Seriously, the visor isn't helping the glare from the dash.
with that said, i don't mind the orange, since i don't see that color on many other vehicles, but if i were to change it would be to red, mainly because of the above statement.

Ah, thank you for confirmation.  The glare from our helmets really do not help with glare as you said.  I think blue looks really nice but a solid red looks good as well and saves some night vision.