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Offline trog_nfs

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Re: New indicators
« Reply #20 on: 22 August 2011, 15:24 »
What bulbs are they Len? 12v 21W with offset pins? or are they the small 5w capless jobs?

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Re: New indicators
« Reply #21 on: 22 August 2011, 15:33 »
Not got them here at work.

They are push in with offset - well you could say pins but its more like a wire on the outside that wedges into the socket.
They are clear with a circular cap.

The ones I bought in Halfords are like and orange tube.
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Re: New indicators
« Reply #22 on: 22 August 2011, 15:38 »
Can you not just get some orange LED bulbs instead?

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Re: New indicators
« Reply #23 on: 22 August 2011, 15:57 »
are you able to find an image online of the light you have

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Re: New indicators
« Reply #24 on: 22 August 2011, 16:09 »
Can you not just get some orange LED bulbs instead?

If I knew where to get them! Any ideas?
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Re: New indicators
« Reply #26 on: 22 August 2011, 17:52 »
Can you not just get some orange LED bulbs instead?

If I knew where to get them! Any ideas?

Surely eBay will what you're after, there's normally 1000's of various LED bulbs on there.

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Re: New indicators
« Reply #27 on: 22 August 2011, 19:48 »
I have the same problem, i (kinda) fixed it, by wiring up the original indicators too, now i have two sets of indicators on the front.  :laugh:
I'll sort it out at some point...

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Re: New indicators
« Reply #28 on: 22 August 2011, 19:58 »
Well I swapped the bulbs for the LED ones and they only work if round the right way!
But no change!
So then I swapped the wires.... still no change!
I really cannot see or think of what can be wrong!
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Re: New indicators
« Reply #29 on: 22 August 2011, 21:26 »
Well I swapped the bulbs for the LED ones and they only work if round the right way!
But no change!
So then I swapped the wires.... still no change!
I really cannot see or think of what can be wrong!

Len sounds like those bulbs and led's your using are not drawing enough watts so you need to ad a resistor into the curcuit or ad a normal wattage bulb and tape it up and hide it.