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Decided to have a look at the heater lighting yesterday, checked out the forum (as usual) and set to. After removing most of the dash to get the heater unit out I did the cleaning of all the switches and the internal reflective parts and found that the two green bulbs ( or clear bulbs with little covers on) had blown.
So it was Saturday evening and I was wondering if I could get the bulbs from my local car parts supermarket on Sunday , or put the whole lot back together, order the bulbs and do it all again.
At this point my neighbour arrives with the usual wry smile (the one he always has whenever I'm tinkering with the surf) and I explain what's going on. He's a very nice bloke with an engineering background and at weekends he goes to model engineering and railway fairs selling a range of tools and related materials (brass bar, copper sheet and stuff), he scuttles off and returns with two boxes full of bulbs and LED's. So 50p later have two green 12v bulbs that fit into the holders on the PCB.
As for the cleaning it has made a big difference to the brightness and the amount of crud that came off the LED's and the insides of the switches was
amazing.
It's gone dark now so I'm of to sit in the surf on the drive and bathe in the glow.
So it was Saturday evening and I was wondering if I could get the bulbs from my local car parts supermarket on Sunday , or put the whole lot back together, order the bulbs and do it all again.
At this point my neighbour arrives with the usual wry smile (the one he always has whenever I'm tinkering with the surf) and I explain what's going on. He's a very nice bloke with an engineering background and at weekends he goes to model engineering and railway fairs selling a range of tools and related materials (brass bar, copper sheet and stuff), he scuttles off and returns with two boxes full of bulbs and LED's. So 50p later have two green 12v bulbs that fit into the holders on the PCB.
As for the cleaning it has made a big difference to the brightness and the amount of crud that came off the LED's and the insides of the switches was
amazing.
It's gone dark now so I'm of to sit in the surf on the drive and bathe in the glow.
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