At 11:37 AM 8/4/2004, 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
-----------

Jason, so what LED did you try? You said blue, but then you said the ones
you got at Radio Shack were infrared?
Infrared LEDs don't put out any VISIBLE light... they are used mostly
for things like TV remote controls and stuff.

If you get a blue LED it should works just fine. I put a blue LED on my
panel and it's great. Remember that LED's have polarity, so you need
to hook it up in the right direction. One lead will be a bit longer than the
other, and that's the anode, which will go to the positive side of the circuit.

Steve
'86 Westy "Escape Pod"
'73 Beetle "ain't got a name yet"