Green, please, don't forget the green. A Darkstorm Dark Green or Darkstorm Neon Green compatible green. Mmmm, what I wouldn't do for a set of those. Or, rather, what I WOULD do!

A question about those pics with the lense off. The knob light seemed to light up the entire IR receiver and that whole area. Can you see that extreme light bleed when the lense (and fascia?) is on? If so, I might need a darker lense.

Remember, green. Green = money from me. Thanks for the hard work because the samples look great!

Yeah stu will you be accepting pre-orders for these?

Amber would be nice

The knob light seemed to light up the entire IR receiver and that whole area.

That problem is an issue with any lense to a lesser or greater degree. The best solution is to search for the 'magic marker mod' where you should find somewhere a printable jpg that masks out this area in black. Print it onto a transparency and trim to fit with a sharp knife. Mount on the back of the lens with a couple of bits of sticky tape.

Green is definitely planned. It just wasn't in the initial batch of samples we got.

Yes, the bleeding is still visible, at least with the OEM blue lens and especially on the MAX setting. You might be able to fit some kind of shroud in there to block the light from leaking so much.

Oh, and thanks for the compliments!

Stu

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Yeah stu will you be accepting pre-orders for these?

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We weren't planning on doing preorders, but we may just forward orders to the caster and let him send them back to us or even set up drop shipping with him. Stay tuned.

Amber is also planned.

Stu

Still tuned!

We're still wating on the second set of samples to arrive. The caster's been a bit slow getting them out. A mold change is also needed to get some of the voids that exist in the OEM pieces filled. I'll post pictures as they are available.

Stu

any new news?

The caster is claiming he can get us a good supply of standard colors by the end of the year. He had to rework the mold to fill in some of the voids in the OEM parts and we still have to approve his dye mixes for green, blue, smoke, and orange. Samples of those were supposed to have gone out last week. He's not been very good on promises, so we'll see if we get things going by the first of the year.

Stu

Beginning of the year? That's cool. Are you going to be able to come up with facia colored buttons?

Fascia colored buttons are certainly possible. We may even be able to incorporate backlit graphics into opaque fascia colored buttons. The challange will be getting the specialized molds to take multiple dyes. It's really all on the caster and his willingness to cooperate.

Stu

It's really all on the caster and his willingness to cooperate.

Tell him we have ways of making him cooperate.

Fascia-colored buttons with backlit graphics (even just outlines) would be hella cool.

I'd love black buttons with translucent arrows on them (milky white as Tony has always described I believe), with the possibility of putting a coloured piece of plastic inside them to create the desired colour when they're lit. I'd probably be interested in a set of standards plus a set of 4 rounds (for use with Tim's Newface - I've definitely decided to get one whenever Tim shows up again)

Bruno

Well it looks like more delays. Not sure how long. The second set of samples is supposed to be overnighted here for tomorrow. However, it doesn't sound like we'll be able to evaluate anything but the color. We'll need a third set of samples to evaluate the new mold he's working on to make them more like Brian's rather then the more open OEM versions.

We'd go with another company, but this seems to be the only option plus we've sunk quite a bit into molds already.

Thanks for everyone's patience.

Stu

Appreciated for the update... i'm waiting very patiently... if you happen to get a set of amber test samples and they look decent, i'll buy em'..

We're supposed to be receiving a set. Actually we were supposed to have gotten them already. When they do come, they will be hollowed out like the OEMs rather than "filled in." We'll have to wait for another round of samples for those and I don't know what color they will be in.

Stu

Samples arrived. I'll post pictures when I can. They are only the knobs this time though.

Stu

Woo Hoo..

C.

Here's Amber. Remember that these are hollowed out like the OEM buttons, so the filled in ones will look different (better). As you can see, we only got the knobs.

Stu

Here's blue. Above disclaimers apply here too. This one has the lens installed since I have a blue one and thought it would be good to compare to the VFD.

Stu

Smoke. Appears too dark to me, especially if filled in instead of hollowed out.

Stu

Green. This one looks blue when lit even in person. The dye mix needs to be tweeked obviously.

Stu

Greetings!

They certainly look good. The form is just right. Now for the filling, hopefully with something to assist diffusion from the LEDs without blocking too much light.

Very cool. They look like the detail is coming out well. I hope the mold process gets easier.

Alvin

IMHO, I would say the 'green' is a better match for the standard blue lens!

Just an opinion

IMHO, I would say the 'green' is a better match for the standard blue lens!

I second that.

\\Kaare

Isn't the problem with the Color matches the LED's and not the dyes. You are using Blue LED's right?
I do not have the LED mod on my empeg so I'm not sure if the LED's are just so bright they look blue.
If everyone who has this mod has blue LED's then I would correct the dye, If not I'd leave them the way they are.

That is a very good point. Colour match is very inportant to me as I have an indiglo dash kit in my Pulsar, along with some A'pexi fuelling and boost controllers. The blue lens on my Empeg is a good match for all this stuff, but I don't want the buttons to be yet another shade of blue

I haven't got my LED mod yet, as I was waiting to get the new buttons first... now I'm a bit confuzled - what colour are the LEDs in the kit from eutronix?



My empeg is the little splash of blue at the bottom

One normally uses white LEDs and let the color of the buttons/knob (or possibly a colored insert) make the color. Looking at Eutronix' page for the LED kit, at least the surface mount (knob) LEDs are white, and I see no reason that the 3mm ones shouldn't be as well.

/Michael

My kit from Stu had white leds in it.