17 Mar
2018
17 Mar
'18
6:09 a.m.
From: Allison
you have to pull the panel apart to replace them, gets
tiring. Modern
yellow LEDs are nice and bright, and don't burn out.
Less digging in the box is a good thing as over time fumble errors can
hurt it.
Agree about replacing lamps - we switched to LEDs BITD because replacing
burned-out lamps (especially when you're trying to fix some _other_ problem)
when there's something better available is just, silly.
Modern red leds at 8mA are very much brighter. However
the yellow look
more like lamps.
What about warm white LEDs, though? The ones we used in the QSIC indicator
panel are, to me, pretty much indistinguishable from the lights as I recall
them from BITD. I mean, maybe if I had them sitting next to each other, I
could tell, but... Those are SMD, though, but maybe they are available
in bulb replacement form?
Noel