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Subject:Re: High Beam Indicator-Ya Gotta Be Kidding Me!!!
From:David Brodbeck
Date:Mon, 19 May 2003 09:18:52 -0400

On Mon, 19 May 2003, David Beierl wrote:

> Um..actually the ALT LED can't carry enough current so they paralleled it
> with a resistor -- 150 ohms maybe?  I doubt if taking the LED out of
> circuit would make it not charge.

Ah, my bad.  I was thinking of the old bulb-indicator ones, where a burned
out bulb filament would stop the silly thing from charging. ;)

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si