[TR] Brighter Dash Lights

[Greg Lemon]

PS, with such riveting stuff on my youtube channel I cannot fathom why I am 
not getting millions of hits and royalties yet..........

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From: "Greg Lemon" <glemon at neb.rr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 11:24 PM
To: "John & Pat Donnelly" <pdonnel1 at san.rr.com>; <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] Brighter Dash Lights

> The lucas dash lights in old TRs, MGs, and Healeys, as well as probably 
> most other british stuff from the 50s and 60s, use what is called an E10 
> screw base, if you google E10 LED you will get some options like this:
>
> http://www.ledlight.com/e10-screw-base-auto-led-lights.aspx
>
> http://autolumination.com/otherleds.htm
>
> Couple things to remember, most if not all LEDs are polarity sensitive, if 
> made for cars they will probably be negative, ground, they are also more 
> directional, and a flashlight or spotlight type LED may not give you the 
> soft even glow you are looking for for dash lights, but they make multiple 
> light leds that shine in different directions, as well as lenses that 
> diffuse the light, also the shape may differ and the wider or longer ones 
> will probably not fit in your instrument light housing, I went with some 
> higher watt incandescents from LBCARCO for the dash lights, and an LED for 
> my turn signal indicator, which I could never see on a bright sunny day 
> before.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3om56PrC9Rs  (before)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B80m6kPyero   (after)
>
> Greg Lemon
>
>
>
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> From: "John & Pat Donnelly" <pdonnel1 at san.rr.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:06 PM
> To: <cfmtr3a at verizon.net>; <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [TR] Brighter Dash Lights
>
>> Hmmm. The only dash lights I find at Litezupp are green ones. I'm driving 
>> a
>> Triumph, not a Honda Civic.
>> Johnnie
>>
>>>
>>> Check out Litezupp http://www.litezupp.com/
>>>
>>> Carl
>>> 1960 Triumph TR3A - TS81802LO
>>> http://mysite.verizon.net/cfmtr3a/
>>> Tampa, FL
>>>
>>>
>>> Many years ago there was a thread about replacement light bulbs for the
>>> dash gauges. I searched the archives but I didn't find anything that
>>> looked familiar. The bulbs were LEDs, not incandescent, as I recall.
>>> The folks who did it swore by it.
>>>
>>> Anybody do this change and know what bulb numbers they were?
>>>
>>> Johnnie
>>
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