

| Subject: | Re: Indicator light (fridge propane) |
| From: | Todd Last |
| Date: | Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:58:47 -0700 |
I did the change and have that documented on my web page. Here is the odd thing that I have noticed. When the water tank is empty - Red LED lit - the propane LED will also light. I'm not sure if this is a failure of the water tank sender unit, or if the Blue LED has a much lower forward voltage requirement from the ones fro mthe factory,. regards, Todd Kim Brennan wrote: >I liked the idea of changing the indicator LED on my Westy from the anemic >green to a bright blue as one of the other folks had done (I bookmarked that >page for later reference). Did it this last weekend. It was much easier a >task than I expected (I should have believed the 30 minute estimate noted on >the web page.) > >So I was excited to see it in action and wouldn't you know, couldn't get the >fridge lit (I'll have to follow up on that, as it was working last month.) >Not a big deal as I was going to pull the fridge anyway to do the change >over on the coil fan. > >Anyway, I was experimenting with a few things and threw the fridge over to >battery mode (engine running)...and the indicator light turned on. Couldn't >miss it. However, I didn't expect it to be on when in battery mode (and the >circuit diagram doesn't indicate that it should be on either.) Interesting. >Have to investigate this more fully. > >Curious thing is, the Bentley manual mentions specific colors for the water >level and battery LEDs, but on the propane indicator the text does not talk >about its color. The diagram refers to it as a "red" indicator (and all the >manuals refer to it as "green".) Blue does seem a much better mnemonic though >(however, it should be noted that blue LEDs did not exist up until a few >years ago, so it wasn't even an option when our Westy's were made. ) > >The hardest thing about switching to the blue LED was finding the stupid LED. >I went to 10 different Radio Shacks before one had them in stock (how all the >Radio Shacks ran out of stock at the same time is beyond me.) > > >
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