tripplenickel
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Need source for replacing the meter lamp bulb/pigtail, either original or LED as well as shrink wrap for same. Let me know, if you got ant idea's, OK. Good evening and 3's to you/yours.
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Meter Lamp
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Dawn
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Plenty of places on E-bay that will sell you a small amount of bright white or blue LED's with a dropping resistor and pigtails to wire in place of a bulb. Couple of bucks will buy you 10 or a dozen in 5mm size that will fit the original grain of wheat bulb grommet in many radios for panel lighting. Search out bright white LED's or check out some of the e-bay CB/radio stores.
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Radio Shack used to have replacement 12v bulbs with flying leads and LEDs if they have not gone completely down the toilet yet.
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Good luck finding any parts at RS even if the website's local store stock finder says so. I have 3 within driving distance. Two have parts drawers that look like they haven't been stocked in ages, the other doesn't even have the drawers. When I worked for them during college, we had a standard stock forcefeed that all stores were required to stock the catalog with very few exceptions. I guess that doesn't apply nowadays. It's no longer worth the bother going there. The remaining drones are clueless unless it's about pusing a battery sale or phone contract. Going there is an entire waste of time and you probably will have your bulb/led from an e-bay vendor in the mail before you manage to find anything around town wasting a tank of gas in the process. That's the reality.
LoyalServant
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And unfortunate... I used to get almost all of my parts from them when I was studying electrical engineering.
They lost their way.. and it may be too late.
Their core market used to be the hobbyist/student/engineer.
As far as the lamp.... use the old grommet unless it's damaged beyond use.
A LED with a current limiting resistor works too but your going to have issue with the lens on the LED and getting the light more or less uniform.
If you go with another incandescent lamp make sure it's not too bright and that it does not get too hot.
I have seen lots of meters ruined because the lamp got too hot and discolored the meter.
LED would be a superior choice if you can get the lighting right.
tripplenickel
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Thank's for the reply's, as for RS, I even hate to go in their stores since staff doesn't have any interest @ all unless a phone sale is iminent.
I in no way would want to jepordize ruining the meter from the wrong size bulb by heaat or otherwise. As for E-Bay, when I search for the ORIGINAL BULB, all I see is a hand full of bulb's with pigtails in different colors. I sure hope there is a supplier out there that has the correct bulb, I just cannot find out who?
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I in no way would want to jepordize ruining the meter from the wrong size bulb by heaat or otherwise. As for E-Bay, when I search for the ORIGINAL BULB, all I see is a hand full of bulb's with pigtails in different colors. I sure hope there is a supplier out there that has the correct bulb, I just cannot find out who?
555
tripplenickel
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Thank's to all, Snake Radio (Tim) sent me the Ebay link for what I wanted.
555
555
Superbrightleds dot com was one site I used to replace many of my incandescent bulbs with LED versions. All Electronics has many in their catalog. The dash of several of my vehicles and electronic test equipment meters are LED's from these two sources.
If you used to watch the Stargate SG1 show, they bought used test equipment and placed blue LED's in the meter movements to make them look modern as background props. I used plain white and the lowest output models on my meter movements. On some they were still too bright so I used sandpaper to diffuse the plastic over the LED element, this worked well for me.
If you used to watch the Stargate SG1 show, they bought used test equipment and placed blue LED's in the meter movements to make them look modern as background props. I used plain white and the lowest output models on my meter movements. On some they were still too bright so I used sandpaper to diffuse the plastic over the LED element, this worked well for me.
LoyalServant
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That's actually not a terrible idea at all.
tripplenickel
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All is well, Redman had the bulb/wire, Home Depot had the 3/32 shrink wrap tubing and I got a fresh lamp in the meter now. Such a easy task, 30 minutes approxmately. Thanks to those who replied.
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