5 Feb
2015
5 Feb
'15
5:55 p.m.
On 02/05/2015 01:05 PM, John Kaur wrote:
If anyone has worked up a led replacement for the
'45, would be of interest.
The original incandescents are not easy to find, even tho have a couple
left.
You take standard 5mm LEDs, cut one lead real short and
solder a 1/4W or
1/10W resistor to that lead. If your console has sockets
for the lamps,
this combo can be plugged into the socket after the leads
are trimmed to
the right length. if no sockets, then they can be soldered
into the PC
board. The resistor value needs to be figured out by trial
and error,
due to the variations in LED efficiency. if the console has
heep-alive
resistors that keep the filaments slightly warm, these will
need to be
removed, as they will keep the LEDs partly lit.
Jon