Re: quattro-digest V3 #1524

["Peter Orban" <peter@amtsg6.ime.nrc.ca>]

> From: tnas@dtpdirect.nl (Tom Nas, DTP Direct bv)
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 12:04:53 +0100
> Subject: General observations & a question
>
> Hi all,
>
> After 1.5 years I've finally tired of the green backlighting on my JVC
> radio CD head unit. Looks stupid in an all-red dash lighting. So I opened
> the removable front panel up, fully expecting it to be lit by green LEDs.
> Imagine my surprise when I saw three tiny bulbs, soldered onto the PC
> board, covered by green rubber thingies. Great! If there are green
> thingies, I must be able to get red thingies, too... now, let's head for
> the electronics store!
...

The VW/Audi radios from the late '80s (Autobahn 200) have both of them
installed in them, actually it is set up by programming the radio. Those radios
are junk and probably everyone has replaced them by now. You should be able to
find one in a heap at a junk yard and salvage the colored condomes.

Good luck, Peter

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Peter E. Orban
National Research Council of Canada
e-mail: peter.orban@nrc.ca