

| Subject: | Re: LED replacement for westy |
| From: | Eric Zeno |
| Date: | Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:55:30 -0400 |
LED's can not replace light bulbs. They are diodes. Light Emitting
Diode. They require load resistors. Figure out what was in there to
begin with and go from there.
Eric
Jason Willenbrock wrote:
> hey all,
> my LED green light to indicate my propane pilot is burning is very dim at
> best. so i went to radio shack today to find a replacement. i found a
> cool
> blue led that looks identical to the green stcok bulb. however when i
> installed it the LED replcemetn would not work. i then reinstalled the
> green buldb and tyhat still works. i tried a second blue LED (i bought 2
> just incase...) and that would not work either. what is the right
> type of
> bulb to work here? it seems like a low voltage circuit board and most
> any
> bulbs should work. does anyone have better info, i really liked the
> blue
> bulb and would like to go with that. the bulb i purchased at radio
> shack is
> a high out put 5mm infrared LED, output is 16mW min. forward voltage is
> 1.2v, forward current is 100mA. are these not correct for the westy
> sicuit
> board?
> TIA for any inout
> jason
> 87 syncro westy
>
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