Date:         Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:26:53 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: High Beam LED? again
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At 18:47 4/3/2000, Brian Doss wrote:
>I replaced mine once. it's an LED. It's not too difficult a job, just pay
>close attention to the stuff you disassemble, and don't kink the ribbon
>connector that connects all the gauges etc... If I recall correctly.., there
>may have been a little blue cap that came with my replacement LED,

I hate to be insistent about this -- but it is *not* an LED, it is a light
bulb.  There are some Vanagons with green high-beam indicators which are
LEDs, but no blue ones.  The blue LED did not exist at the time.  Your
replacement came with a blue cover because it was a white light bulb (note
-- white LEDs did not exist then either).  If you plug an LED into the
socket without changing the series resistor it will probably smoke
(although a blue one might not, they run on a much higher voltage than
red/yellow/green LEDs.  You'd have to work the numbers to see, though.  As
before, if anyone needs the formula to figure out LED series resistors just
pmail me.

Incidentally, a little fairy told me that the p/n for the bulb with cover
is 357 919 062 The blue cover alone is apparently 251 919 068.
david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"