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Changing Speedometer Instrument Dash Lights on a Gen 1
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<blockquote data-quote="ionbeam" data-source="post: 563348" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>I'm a little late to this party. Some time ago Good Iggy sent me some of his burned out bulbs & sockets so I could do some research for LED replacements.</p><p></p><p>The bad news is that I haven't been able to find a practical way to replace the filament bulbs. LEDs need a voltage drop resistor. Due to the size of the power drop there is no simple way to get both the LED and a resistor mounted to the OEM bulb socket. Some LEDs do come with internal drop resistors but the ones that I've found don't produce enough brightness or radial light dispersion to be serviceable. I'm sure I could modify an instrument PCB to take LEDs but that isn't helpful to the majority of Gen I FJR owners looking for a plug 'n play solution.</p><p></p><p>The Gen II instrument panel uses surface mount LEDs which are soldered directly into the PCB. Since the PCB had to be changed for the Gen II design the engineers would have added any power drop resistors to the PCB. The good news is that the average life of an LED is typically listed at 99 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ionbeam, post: 563348, member: 277"] I'm a little late to this party. Some time ago Good Iggy sent me some of his burned out bulbs & sockets so I could do some research for LED replacements. The bad news is that I haven't been able to find a practical way to replace the filament bulbs. LEDs need a voltage drop resistor. Due to the size of the power drop there is no simple way to get both the LED and a resistor mounted to the OEM bulb socket. Some LEDs do come with internal drop resistors but the ones that I've found don't produce enough brightness or radial light dispersion to be serviceable. I'm sure I could modify an instrument PCB to take LEDs but that isn't helpful to the majority of Gen I FJR owners looking for a plug 'n play solution. The Gen II instrument panel uses surface mount LEDs which are soldered directly into the PCB. Since the PCB had to be changed for the Gen II design the engineers would have added any power drop resistors to the PCB. The good news is that the average life of an LED is typically listed at 99 years. [/QUOTE]
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