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Old 07-29-2021, 10:56 PM   #100 (permalink)
Ecky
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It's been too long since I worked on Aerocivic. I keep telling myself, "Just finish the house projects, put it up on the market, and then you can work on the car as much as you want until closing." Today my partner worked some overtime though, so I got in a bit of time swapping all of the bulbs in the cluster for LEDs. They're whiter and that seems to have done some funky things to the colors of some of the indicators, and I may end up looking for some warm white or even amber bulbs for those.

In the pic with the tach, you can see the color temperature of the LED (left side) and the incandescent bulb (right side).

I believe the original bulbs are 1.4 watt and, when the headlights are on, there are 6 minimum in the cluster lit at any given time, just for background illumination. I need to pull the climate control and see what else there is. The LEDs are, of course, effectively zero watts.
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