Vic:
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Ron Tebo
> Subject: Brighter dash lights! Sooner than you thought!
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:44:39 -0500
> From: "paul almjeld" <palmjeld@mit.midco.net>
> To: <alpines@autox.team.net>
>
> Bob and all:
>
> I found the information hiding on my home computer.
>
> You Light up my Life!
>
> Remember that song from a few years back? It's what came to mind during a
> trip to the local Radio Shack store. A quick, easy way to improve the night
> visibility of the Alpine and Tigerdash gauges is to substitute the original
> bulbs with some that have
> slightly more output. Radio Shack has available a screw base lamp rated at
> 14.4 volts, 200 mA that is an easy replacement for those dim original bulbs.
> The Radio Shack #1487 lamps come packaged in pairs and can be found hanging
> in the bulb display area of your local RS store. They carry a 1.4MSCP
> brightness label and are rated at an average life of 30 hours. They provide
> improved illumination without so much brightness as to be annoying. I have
> replaced all the
> original bulbs in my Series V. For evening or night driving they are a
> significant improvement
> over the originals.
Victor Hughes wrote:
>
> Sometime in the past I remember someone on one of these lists replacing
> their instrument light bulbs with brighter ones. Can someone send me
> details please?
> Thanks
>
> Vic
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