Main beam LED

Post by **funkypaul** » 02 Oct 2006, 17:32

The LED which tells you that you're on full beam has broken on my camper (1983 T25 watercooled)...does anyone know where you can buy these, or whether just a general LED will do the job? Thanks, Paul

Post by **Simon Baxter** » 02 Oct 2006, 17:35

It's not a LEd, it's bulb with a blue cover.
The people who made your van sell them.

Post by **cumbriankeith** » 02 Oct 2006, 18:10

Some of the early ones were LEDs - mine is - don't know when they changed over. Note that the LEDs instrument PCB includes a resistor to stop the LED blowing, but the bulb version doesn't need that - it's just a 12v bulb

Post by **lhd** » 02 Oct 2006, 20:39

It's not a LEd, it's bulb with a blue cover.

mines yellow.

lhd.......................

Post by **cumbriankeith** » 02 Oct 2006, 22:19

Yellow - that'll be an LED then!

Post by **Simon Baxter** » 02 Oct 2006, 22:25

eee, you forget about the older stuff...

Post by **airhead** » 03 Oct 2006, 00:50

Blue LEDs were as rare as rocking horse poo in the 80s and very expensive. Nearly as expensive as a shovel full of rocking horse poo actually! But you can get them as cheap as normal poo now and change your normal bulb for an all singing all dancing LED, even one with a built in resistor for convenience sake.

Post by **cumbriankeith** » 03 Oct 2006, 06:56

I tried a blue led (and it wasn't a 'ultra-brite' or 'brite' one! - it was the weakest Maplin supply) and it was too bright - a distraction/annoyance when driving especially away from street lighting areas in the country. It reminded me of my father's Morris Minor when I was a kid - he put a bit of sticky brown paper on the glass over the high beam light in that cos it was very bright.

Website · Post by **CovKid** » 04 Oct 2006, 22:20

Lol - you too? Jeesh the blue LED was bright. In the dark it totally blinds you. I found the solution was to dip the LED in black enamel or similar before fitting - perfect blue then.

Post by **guz** » 05 Oct 2006, 07:28

or strip a set of polo/golf clocks in
the scrappy and pocket the blue LED.

Post by **vanjam** » 07 Oct 2006, 22:50

I was really proud of my repair to the main beam indicator light until I used it at night. I had to hold my hand over the dash to stop being blinded. The lowest wattage maplins 5mm led is 5W and it's dangerously bright. It's p[roved hard to find lower wattage blue ones but I've found a yellow one rated at 1W which I hope will do the trick, not from Maplins notably, they seem to have reduced there stock of low wattage leds, I got mine from a local outfit in Shrewsbury.

Post by **DiscoDave** » 08 Oct 2006, 00:31

you could always try a 24v led!! or a change the resistor!

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