'74 Instrument Panel with backlit heater lever positions

As you suggested I've moved the earth tab over to the other plate at the top... Will finish it off oneway or other once I've sourced another bulb holder.

 

I may have a spare you can have for nowt, if you need one? Are they the black twist-in jobs? Believe you can actually buy them new as well.

 

Pinched one of my other holders for a test…Second one looks quite a bit duller in series…

 

Is that with a bulb or LED?

 

Thats with 2 red LED in series as per the existing wiring.

 

If you have a spare I can paypal a couple of quid to cover postage...

 

You can have it for nowt. PM me your address and I'll bung it in the post.

 

My connectors are bloody enormous so I might have to bite the bullet and order some stuff…

 

Jumpers made ready to try out …

 

Nope. Think the holders take 2.3mm spades. I'll chuck a couple of those in. Some bulbholders had the wires spot-welded on, so they would need to come off.

 

Tada…live jumper has to be so carefully placed and quite long as it has the 2 heater levers inside it!!



There was definitely a 'fook the levers' moment there...

 

Do you still need a bulbholder?

 

Aye if you can, I managed to cut up my big connector and reform it ok. I pulled a main light bulb holder to try the pair of reds out.

 

I'll get it in the post with a few of the small connectors.

 

Thanks very much man, I owe you a beer should we ever be in the same place !!

 

I won't forget .

May find your LEDs are to bright if they do spring to life. Could put an extra limiting resistor in series with the whole lot...if you can be bothered...

 

The dimmer knocks them down a touch...to be honest I woldnt know where to start looking for a suitable resistor....I've got warm LED lights in the main console.


EDIT: found this...

 

If they do turn out too bright, best approach would be to get a low-ish value potentimeter/variable resistor (maybe in the hundreds of ohms range) in series with the LEDs and tweak it at night to your liking. Then measure the resistance if the pot and replace it with a fixed resistor.

If you can be bothered ...

 

Post office did their best to sabotage but I think it’s all arrived safely…



Thanks again

 

Lol. What on earth did they do with it? Hopefully in one piece.