At 10:42 PM 7/15/2013, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>The blue lights are somewhat calming and remind me that I need to get going
>on that Subaru engine.

Funny, blue lights for me have the precise opposite effect.  I wish
blue LEDs had never been invented, or at least had been invented at
the same time as red ones and not been delayed so long that they
suddenly became fashionable.  Optically they're about the worst
possible choice for visual acuity and not having strange vibrating
optical effects.

>lights were dead too when I bought the van,  but I replaced them with
>incandescents--for now!  I'm trying to make everything last as long as I'm
>likely to now, which probably isn't hard to do.

If you change your dash lights to LEDs you'll have to modify the
dimming circuit to get reasonable dimming.  Incandescent and LED dim
entirely differently.  They don't play well together and they don't
like the same kinds of dimmer circuits.  Plus of course the fixtures
were designed with the all-around radiation from incandescents in
mind.  For me it makes sense just to leave them be.

Yrs,
d