It's also worth remembering that filling bulbs with halogen gas just allows
a brighter filament to be used without it completely burning up, for any
given power rating - but that means it'll also produce a lot more heat as
well for that given power than a standard bulb - if anyone's worried about
retaining their plastic covers in the gauges...
Interested to know how you get on with the LEDs.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Hugh Fader
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 03:00
> To: 'Robert L. Gannon'; 'jonmac'
> Cc: '6Pack'
> Subject: RE: Poor dash lighting
>
>
> Yup, the bulbs are pretty close to little plastic domes on my TR6 gages. I
> fear they might melt.
>
> I read somewhere that the halogens people are using for their instruments
> are 5W. I may experiment with LEDs. I have located some with the proper
> screw base. I'm not sure if they will be any brighter though.
>
> - Hugh
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert L. Gannon [mailto:trsix74@comcast.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:40 PM
> > To: Hugh Fader; 'jonmac'
> > Cc: '6Pack'
> > Subject: Re: Poor dash lighting
> >
> >
> > 5Watt and 10Watt Bulbs? Wow! Wouldn't these be too much to go
> > inside those
> > instruments? I have replacement bulbs in my 'spares' but I
> > believe the max
> > any instrument takes is a 2.2 Watt. I would say the heat
> > would be more than
> > what some of the parts inside could take.
> > Robert L. Gannon
> > trsix74@comcast.net
> > TR6 1974 CF22956U
> > TR3A 1960 TS70951L
> > http://hometown.aol.com/twodzusfittings/myhomepage/auto.html
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