I have never been able to read the light in the daytime without cupping
my hand over it: even after the fridge has been burning for hours but at
night the fridge LED seems to burn just as brightly as the others. Because
of this I'm not sure it being hard to see is not caused more by the color of
the led just not showing up well in the daylight than by anything being
wrong in the electronics.
     If so the cure is to simply replace the LED with another more visible
color but under the "If it ain't broke don't fix it." rule perhaps the first
thing to try is to change the color of that LED by tinting it with a thin
wash of paint, heavily diluted with thinner or perhaps a concentrate of
clothing die. I know this last works for tinting some plastics as I used to
do it to simulate tinted windows on model cars I used to build. If these
sound worth a try I would try the thin paint wash first. If you dont like
what the paint does you can wash it off.  Because the die works as a stain
and not a paint, depending on what kind of plastic the LED is made from,
that die will either go on forever or it wont go on at all. Also note that
the color you end up with will be a MIXTURE of the LED color and the die
color. Color 1 plus color 2 makes color 3. Apply the wrong color die and you
may end up with a black LED.
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Puzerewski
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 4:33 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Fridge burner LED

Is it par for the course for the fridge LED (lower red under the red for
water)  to be real dim when the stove first lights and get brighter as it
gets hotter in there???  I lit my fridge last night, and could see the flame
in the sight hole, but could barely notice the LED.  I was hoping it was
brighter as to make it more obvious when success was achieved.  Any suggs??

Adam Puzerewski
81 westy