SPA gauge flickering..

[JR2]

Well got back in town last night, jump in truck and fire it up and look at the gauges. AHHHHHH one of them is flickering. It is my SPA boost/egt guage. Its just the backlight and it appears to be just one of two lights that are in there. I know someone has opened one of these up, is there a quick fix?? or do I need to send off an email to see about some repair?? For now I have turned off the backlighting, hard to see the numbers but not driving me crazy.



By the way, I have another guage that is hooked to the same power and I soldierd the connections so I doubt its an electrical problem with the hookup.



JR2

 

[HC]

Mine started doing the exact same thing about a week ago. After awhile, one of the two backlights went out completely. In a way, it is better now for night driving - not overly bright like the original - just enough light to see the numbers.



I think I like it better now, but, when light #2 burns out, then I'll be upset too!

 

[Steve G]

JR2, My boost/egt gauge doesn't flicker but I've noticed that the upper left hand side is getting dark.



Steve

 

[Brandon]

yes john the backlight led is goin out..... ask patrick what he wants to do. I do have two old boost egt guages one is sorta spoken for the other is pretty open ask patrick what he thinks...

 

[JR2]

Yesterday mine flickerd... today it was operating just fine and then bang one light. I agree, having only one light is nice, the lighting level is perfect.



I am going to e-mail Patrick Lynch at SPA about it and see what he says. Maybe he has some of the old ones just laying around or maybe he can fix it up. I am going to wait till next week as there are fish that need to be caught and summer is short in Alaska.

 

[Sled Puller]

After what I have exprienced with mine for the last year, I am convinced it was a $325 piece of junk.



I should have known better, computers have no place on a Diesel.



I am a sucker.