Position of stock temp guage

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I recently rewired my entire truck with the painless kit. It works great however, I have a question, prior to rewiring my truck the stock temp guage did not work (maybe because of the wiring or printed circuit panel) so I had an after market guage.

Now after my the engine warms up the temp guage sits at the 1st line and sometimes creaps up to the "orange" area. Is this normal? I checked the temp of several places on the engine block with a laser temp sensor and it ranged between 180 and 200. I did not have a overheating problem prior to rewiring the truck.

Thanks for any advice.