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Date:         Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:54:00 -0400
Reply-To:     Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Subject:      Re: High beam blue light?
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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At 07:15 PM 3/11/2009, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote...
>yeah.........duh.
>if he would have said 'blue hi beam INDICTOR LED in the
>dash'...........
>that would have made good sense.
>It's barely a 'bulb'  after all, unless we want to consider light
>emitting
>diodes as some form of bulb.


No. It's an incandescent bulb, with a blue plastic filter on it. Blue
LEDs weren't commercially available until CREE introduced them in late
1989, and even then, they were too expensive (over $10, AIR) to use as
a dash indicator on a VW. He said "blue hi beam on bulb," which
signifies an indicator.
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