[urq] Bulbs for Illuminating the Instrument Cluster

[Bill Bennett]

instead of LED you might consider a kit source that has been used on my
Son's car for over a year with no problem.
http://www.kitsusa.net/phpstore/index.php?action=category&id=22   the
illumination is always at a constant level, and very reliable, never had a
glitch and you chose the color
----- Original Message -----
From: "Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 9:20 AM
Subject: RE: [urq] Bulbs for Illuminating the Instrument Cluster


... haven't tried it, but it sounds like an excellent idea.  An LED
would certainly help reduce the amount of heating that occurs on the
flexprint board and IC housing.  The incandescent light is shining into
a light pipe anyway, so the reduced illumination angle of the LED should
not cause a problem (in the past I haven't had good luck replacing
incandescents with LEDs because they don't cover an area as well) ...
you can certainly get bright enough LEDs nowadays ...

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)
>
> Folks has anyone tried replacing the two bulbs that
> illuminate the instrument cluster with 12V LEDs? I currently
> have one of the lens type bulbs and one of the non-lense type
> bulbs which gives un-even illumination.
>
> I was thinking about using red LEDs, any BTDTs?
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