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Reply #22 –
Here is a picture of mine taken while I was playing with the different color options of my Autometer fuel pressure gauge. As you can see, there are a few areas where the luminescent outlines are blotchy. It would be nice to be able to cure that, so I will be following to see if anyone has success with a fix. Aside from the outlines around the perimeter, the various HVAC controls light up. The side panel where the retarder controls etc. are located do not light up on our 99' U270. I think that similar model year U320's and U295's with the angled side console may light up, but I haven't actually seen that.
Don

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Reply #23 –
Quote from: MisterEd –
When we bought our coach 1 of the EL panels didn't work. By the time we were half way home another one failed. I really like the classy look of the EL, so plan to take a crack at fixing them. There's some good info in this thread: Log in especially posts 5 and 8, by James Stallings.

This is an important link.  Repair is a lot more complicated than just reestablishing continuity over the broken/burned area, as the strip has to be electrically isolated from the aluminum dash facia.

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Reply #25 –
Thanks for the photo.  My 97 side panel does not light up.  Anyone's 97 side panel light up like the 99 shown?

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Reply #26 –
On my 97, only the dash lights up, not the side panel.

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Reply #27 –
Thanks for the pictures Don and Craneman!  Those el dashes are really quite snazzy. 

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Reply #28 –
I still have a left and center panel fora 2000 U320. I had to buy all three to replace the right side

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Reply #30 –
Thanks guys.  My guru buddy had mounted a panel in the middle of my left panel and mounted my retarder handle in it and I wondered if he had shorted something.  But I never had seen it light up before that either,  did not know what was normal.

I'd like mine to light up like the 99's.  Anyone have an extra light up side panel?

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Reply #31 –
Each to their own, Having been a night driver in a class 8 for 10 years. I they look distracting in those photos. (mine do not work) or it might not even have them as mine is a 1998.  Cool when you are stationary. I prefer a BMW car dash for night vision, Which is a low intensity red. Like most aircraft. Aircraft use red for a reason.

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Reply #32 –
Yes sat in a live f-18 cockpit long ago.  Red dim lighting and red top centered needles on every gauge at normal conditions.

Quick eye scan determines if every thing is ok. 

That's why I really appreciate the dash layout on our 97.  All the gauges can be read with averted vision

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Reply #35 –
Craneman you have a separate brightness knob for your side console?

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Reply #36 –
Quote from: Caflashbob –
Craneman you have a separate brightness knob for your side console?
I have a brightness control on the dash that controls the light for the dash gauges.  And I have a brightness control on the side panel next to the retarder joystick that controls the brightness of the EL luminescent dash.

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Reply #38 –
Neither do i

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Reply #39 –
Must just be on the 320's '99 and later