Hi all -

Just be glad you don't have the original Vanagon highbeam
indicator in your bus.  It was a RED in '80.  It drove me crazy.
All of my finely tuned VW instincts were triggered whenever I
turned on the brights.  RED LIGHT, RED LIGHT, WARNING, WARNING!

Fortunately, during the troubles and travails I had with the odometer,
I managed to end up with a later version with the green LED.  Actually,
I searched for one with a non-red LED.  Much better.  The
Green Light On chapter in the Idiot book kept popping into
mind, but much less distracting than the red light.

Jeff
Vanagonless by this weekend
still Ineeda21/23windowsunroofDeluxewalkthru! for daily driving
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> I decided to replace it with one of those newer 'high brightness blue
> LEDs' and when I took apart the instrument cluster I found it wasn't
> really an LED but a little incandescent hiding behind a little
> 'dummy' LED.
>
> The new one did work, maybe too good since I am thinking of tearing
> back into the dash and change out the resistor value that sits in
> series with the light so it won't be too bright.
>
Kevin,
My '81 has a green LED for the high beam position, which is identical to
the turn signal indicator LED, so it's not too bright or too dim.
Granted this is not the traditional color of the high beam indicator
light, but it works well for me.

--
Sean Bartnik