LED'S

I've had the check wallet warning light on again and while picking up spares
I spotted some of the the led replacement bulbs we were discussing a while
back not as high spec as the ones Austin recommended only 12 leds but worth
a punt for a tenner.
I had not remembered what an instrument of evil the extra two seats
are in the back of a Disco.They are designed to make a mundane job, bulb
changing a total pain and I don't really need them, I don't remember when I
had four in a car let along needing seats for 6 or 7 do I look like a scout
master??. Anyway I had a problem with the o/s which turned out to be a blown
fuse found after much head scratching and the odd curse but they are so
damned bright and well recommended- once again I concur with Austin's
opinion one day I will pop down to a landy get together and see if his
opinions on welsh ales are as good. thanks Austin.
Derek

No I do not have tourettes I own a land rover

"Derek" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
: I've had the check wallet warning light on again and while picking up
spares
: I spotted some of the the led replacement bulbs we were discussing a while
: back not as high spec as the ones Austin recommended only 12 leds but
worth
: a punt for a tenner.
: I had not remembered what an instrument of evil the extra two seats
: are in the back of a Disco.They are designed to make a mundane job, bulb
: changing a total pain and I don't really need them, I don't remember when
I
: had four in a car let along needing seats for 6 or 7 do I look like a
scout
: master??. Anyway I had a problem with the o/s which turned out to be a
blown
: fuse found after much head scratching and the odd curse but they are so
: damned bright and well recommended- once again I concur with Austin's
: opinion one day I will pop down to a landy get together and see if his
: opinions on welsh ales are as good. thanks Austin.
: Derek
:
: No I do not have tourettes I own a land rover

damn,

I was soo hoping that stories of the "bitch that are the fold down seats"
were just rumours, but alas, with another postive sighting of the tales of
woe, then it must be true.

still on the bright side, it'll be SWMBO who changes over the bulbs for me
on the disco (still banned from doing ANYTHING)

wonder if I should tell her?

Si

>
> I was soo hoping that stories of the "bitch that are the fold down seats"
> were just rumours, but alas, with another postive sighting of the tales of
> woe, then it must be true.
>
> still on the bright side, it'll be SWMBO who changes over the bulbs for me
> on the disco (still banned from doing ANYTHING)
>
> wonder if I should tell her?


) I bought a shedful of LEDs for the boat as it doesn't charge it's own
batteries except by tiny solar panels. Flicking them all on at once produced
no drop on the voltmeter but flicking the only filament bulb ( the one at
the top of the mast - can't be a****d to climb up or drop the mast to change
it ) produced a big jig on the voltmeter needle. Current draw must be zilch.

100,000 hours between failures should see off the average Disco too so
changing to leds for the brake lights is a good idea, but prohibitively
expensive for any bulb easy to get to. Don't forget - buy RED led's for
brake lights not white ones.

TonyB

"GrnOval" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Derek" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> : I've had the check wallet warning light on again and while picking up
> spares
> : I spotted some of the the led replacement bulbs we were discussing a
> while
> : back not as high spec as the ones Austin recommended only 12 leds but
> worth
> : a punt for a tenner.
> : I had not remembered what an instrument of evil the extra two
> seats
> : are in the back of a Disco.They are designed to make a mundane job, bulb
> : changing a total pain and I don't really need them, I don't remember
> when
> I
> : had four in a car let along needing seats for 6 or 7 do I look like a
> scout
> : master??. Anyway I had a problem with the o/s which turned out to be a
> blown
> : fuse found after much head scratching and the odd curse but they are so
> : damned bright and well recommended- once again I concur with Austin's
> : opinion one day I will pop down to a landy get together and see if his
> : opinions on welsh ales are as good. thanks Austin.
> : Derek
> :
> : No I do not have tourettes I own a land rover
>
> damn,
>
> I was soo hoping that stories of the "bitch that are the fold down seats"
> were just rumours, but alas, with another postive sighting of the tales of
> woe, then it must be true.
>
> still on the bright side, it'll be SWMBO who changes over the bulbs for me
> on the disco (still banned from doing ANYTHING)
>
> wonder if I should tell her?
>
> Si
>
That all depends whether you have a video camera handy, the process should
really be posted online as a warning to others .
The trim panel that covers the back of the cluster is airfix thin so you
need to manouver it carefully while trying desperately not to split the
vinyl off the panel which is stuck on with spit and prayer. Once off you
realise there is no position of the seat which allows you to see the
stop/tailamp holder or reach it unless you had a misspent adolesence
changing bypass hoses on Mini's .Mine was very tight and needed gentle
persuasion with waterpump pliers to free it off .The easy way was to take
out the cluster, two (very stiff) thumb screws or in my case one - somebody
evidently got ****ed off and left the other off. Reinstalling is the reverse
of the procedure ( sounds familiar eh? ) It all makes me wonder why I have
now got scars on my right elbow.
Derek
No I do not have tourettes I own a land rover

Derek <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny
about:

<snip>

> once again I concur with Austin's opinion one day I will pop down to
> a landy get together and see if his opinions on welsh ales are as
> good. thanks Austin. Derek
>

a.f.l. & 101ers Unofficial October 2006
<http://www.lrproject.com/afl__101_owners_unofficial.htm>

I seem to recall that the camp site mentions summat about Fishing too in
it's site... You sort the Fish we'll sort the barbie ;-)

Lee

On or around Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:01:27 GMT, "Derek"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>I've had the check wallet warning light on again and while picking up spares
>I spotted some of the the led replacement bulbs we were discussing a while
>back not as high spec as the ones Austin recommended only 12 leds but worth
>a punt for a tenner.

I rescued the posh ones from the minibus I'm going to be selling soon, and
had intended to put 'em in the latest minibus, but I ran into an odd
problem: ford have wired the front ones at least backwards: the pin is
negative and the case positive. thus the LED ones don't work.

so I put 'em in the sierra instead, then spent a merry 20 minutes or so
getting at the flasher unit to disable the bulb-failure
"flash-like-a-maniac" feature. FWIW, to do this, you have to identify the
chip in the unit, work out which pin is the bulb outage sensor and cut the
circuit board track to that pin.

If you want to get really technical it may be possible to reset the bulb
failure mode by changing a resistor, so that it can sense a failed LED unit
- the data sheet I had for one of the types (used in the 19FL units among
others) explained how to set the bulb failure mode by choice of resistor.

> I had not remembered what an instrument of evil the extra two seats
>are in the back of a Disco.They are designed to make a mundane job, bulb
>changing a total pain and I don't really need them,

you can remove them, you know...
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria"
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) from Divina Commedia 'Inferno'

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:28:46 +0100, TonyB wrote:

> Flicking them all on at once produced no drop on the voltmeter but
> flicking the only filament bulb ( the one at the top of the mast -
> can't be a****d to climb up or drop the mast to change it ) produced a
> big jig on the voltmeter needle. Current draw must be zilch.

A filament buld is virtually a short circuit at switch on, as it gets hot
(PDQ) and produces light their resistance increases dramatically. Thus
there is quite a switch on surge with a filament lamp leading to a
voltmeter wiggle. LEDs don't have a switch on surge.
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