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Has anyone seen or used these?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sunbeam-Alp...ies&hash=item460e6f29da&vxp=mtr#ht_158wt_1320
Gary
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sunbeam-Alp...ies&hash=item460e6f29da&vxp=mtr#ht_158wt_1320
Gary
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66TigerMK1A
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Wow, Gary... Nice find! I've never seen LED's in that base... and the stock ones are getting hard to find and probably cost as much as those.
Bruce, there IS a thread from the last couple years talking about LED replacement tail lights .
I ended up just upgrading to brighter incandescents 50/14CP for the tail/stop and 40CP for the turn. My car's still apart but they test out considerably brighter in the housings 'on the bench' The stop element does create more heat in the housing but can't say I ride the brakes much
Total cost was about $10
Jim
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Bruce, there IS a thread from the last couple years talking about LED replacement tail lights .
I ended up just upgrading to brighter incandescents 50/14CP for the tail/stop and 40CP for the turn. My car's still apart but they test out considerably brighter in the housings 'on the bench' The stop element does create more heat in the housing but can't say I ride the brakes much
Total cost was about $10
Jim
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I'm quite sure this is Joe Parlanti, they are his pictured from the article and ad he has been running in the TEAE newsletter.
Would be nice if we could get them in a more yellowish colour than white.. to give the original look.. but brighter.
Would be nice if we could get them in a more yellowish colour than white.. to give the original look.. but brighter.
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Weak Candles
I've been using the Wagner 2CP bulbs from the local NAPA and things need to be pretty dark before you notice any light coming from the dash. I might just give a few of these a try. Perhaps changing the inner paint reflector coatings will improve the background tint ??
I've been using the Wagner 2CP bulbs from the local NAPA and things need to be pretty dark before you notice any light coming from the dash. I might just give a few of these a try. Perhaps changing the inner paint reflector coatings will improve the background tint ??
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There is an old CAT Shop Notes tip that recommends 1446 bulbs for a little brighter incandescent bulb. They are available on ebay and some model railroading shops.
It is a 2.4 watt bulb vs. the 2.2 watt Lucas bulb. So about 9 % brighter, all other factors held equal.
My dash is out of the car so I cannot test it directly in driving conditions. But on the bench in a bulb holder, it did look meaningfully brighter than the stock bulb set up next to it.
One thing I noticed about the stock bulb, original since 1967, was that a slight film had built up inside the glass. Probably from the filament vaporizing over time. That is going to make any original bulb give out less light over time, the older it gets.
What really made my tach tremendously brighter with a stock bulb was to repaint the inside of the can a fresh gloss white when I had it apart. The white was starting to dull, crack and flaked off in a few places. Forget trying to balance the light with half white and half blue. It now is easily twice as bright as any other instrument.
While a creamer looking can interior back side paint may make a LED light more pleasant, I am not sure what you would give up in brightness. Only way to know is to try it I guess.
Anyway, my own next step it to try and repaint the interior of the other instruments a fresh gloss white. Now if I can just figure out how to get the other gauges apart without ruining the bezel...
Gene
It is a 2.4 watt bulb vs. the 2.2 watt Lucas bulb. So about 9 % brighter, all other factors held equal.
My dash is out of the car so I cannot test it directly in driving conditions. But on the bench in a bulb holder, it did look meaningfully brighter than the stock bulb set up next to it.
One thing I noticed about the stock bulb, original since 1967, was that a slight film had built up inside the glass. Probably from the filament vaporizing over time. That is going to make any original bulb give out less light over time, the older it gets.
What really made my tach tremendously brighter with a stock bulb was to repaint the inside of the can a fresh gloss white when I had it apart. The white was starting to dull, crack and flaked off in a few places. Forget trying to balance the light with half white and half blue. It now is easily twice as bright as any other instrument.
While a creamer looking can interior back side paint may make a LED light more pleasant, I am not sure what you would give up in brightness. Only way to know is to try it I guess.
Anyway, my own next step it to try and repaint the interior of the other instruments a fresh gloss white. Now if I can just figure out how to get the other gauges apart without ruining the bezel...
Gene
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leds
superbrightleds.com is a good place to get the LED bulbs, and they have a great selection. Their 1157's that have LED's on the front and sides are REALLY bright.
I've been thinking of converting the Tiger tailights to some of the strip LED's they sell... Probably make it easier to see the car from behind at night if the whole thing lit up. I was thinking of using a single strip in the center for the tailight, and a double strip on the insides for the brakes, and a double strip on the outsides for the turn signals. That'd be about 20 times brighter than the incandescent bulbs it has now...
Bob K.
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superbrightleds.com is a good place to get the LED bulbs, and they have a great selection. Their 1157's that have LED's on the front and sides are REALLY bright.
I've been thinking of converting the Tiger tailights to some of the strip LED's they sell... Probably make it easier to see the car from behind at night if the whole thing lit up. I was thinking of using a single strip in the center for the tailight, and a double strip on the insides for the brakes, and a double strip on the outsides for the turn signals. That'd be about 20 times brighter than the incandescent bulbs it has now...
Bob K.
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