

| Subject: | Re: High beam blue light? |
| From: | Mike S |
| Date: | Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:54:00 -0400 |
At 07:15 PM 3/11/2009, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote... >yeah.........duh. >if he would have said 'blue hi beam INDICTOR LED in the >dash'........... >that would have made good sense. >It's barely a 'bulb' after all, unless we want to consider light >emitting >diodes as some form of bulb. No. It's an incandescent bulb, with a blue plastic filter on it. Blue LEDs weren't commercially available until CREE introduced them in late 1989, and even then, they were too expensive (over $10, AIR) to use as a dash indicator on a VW. He said "blue hi beam on bulb," which signifies an indicator.
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