I have the blue LED mod and I bought mine from Radio Shack. I bought the lower intensity of the two they have as I don't want the cabin to be lit brightly at night. Here are the possible reasons your's don't work: 1) I assumed you check the polarity. Flip the LED 180 degree around and if it still does not work try 2) 2) The driver in the monitor panel intends to drive a few tenths of milliamps. There is a current limiting resistor which you can find by tracing the circuit board trace from the LED. You may need to adjust the value so the LED does not draw excessive current. I set mine to about 40mA and it is plenty bright. 3) From what I remember the Radio Shake blue LED has built in current limit resistor so it can opperate from 5V. You may have to reduce the current limit resistor on the monitor panel or short across it. Please check carefully before you shorting the resistor.
Hope this help. - Vince -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jason Willenbrock Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:37 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: LED replacement for westy
hey all, my LED green light to indicate my propane pilot is burning is very dim at best. so i went to radio shack today to find a replacement. i found a cool blue led that looks identical to the green stcok bulb. however when i installed it the LED replcemetn would not work. i then reinstalled the green buldb and tyhat still works. i tried a second blue LED (i bought 2 just incase...) and that would not work either. what is the right type of bulb to work here? it seems like a low voltage circuit board and most any bulbs should work. does anyone have better info, i really liked the blue bulb and would like to go with that. the bulb i purchased at radio shack is a high out put 5mm infrared LED, output is 16mW min. forward voltage is 1.2v, forward current is 100mA. are these not correct for the westy sicuit board? TIA for any inout jason 87 syncro westy _________________________________________________________________ Discover the best of the best at MSN Luxury Living. http://lexus.msn.com/ |
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