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Subject:Re: Plasma gauge set
From:Bruce Todd
Date:Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:08:07 -0700

Thanks Kenneth - I'll give it another go.   I get a little nervous when it
comes to continually touching the foil and wonder how many bulb twists I
have left.

Bruce

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:03 AM kenneth wilford <kenwilfy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bruce, LED bulbs must be installed a certain way to work.  In other words
> they need to be installed so that plus matches plug and minus matches
> minus.  If they aren't they won't work.  Normal bulbs don't have this
> issue.  So if you can't get LED instrument lights to work, turn them around
> and they should work.
>
> Ken
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:16 AM Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just wanted to report I spent the weekend ploddingly installing a plasma
>> gauge set and really like the results.  The instructions were pretty
>> straight forward and luckily everything came apart easily and I didn't
>> further depreciate the brittle plastic gauge and instrument housing or the
>> blue plastic ribbon.
>>
>> The only thing that I couldn't get working were the replacement LED bulbs
>> -
>> so I kept the old style  bulbs in place instead.  The plasma gauges are
>> backlit so it doesn't really matter.
>>
>> This is a really nice upgrade.
>>
>> https://t3technique.com/electrical/plasma-gauge-set/
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>