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Old August 27th 03, 03:51 AM
Fred Nachbaur
 
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Lizard Blizzard wrote:
James Robinson wrote:

Bob wrote:

Looking for tiny incandescent lamps for my TM-451A Kenwood.




You might try a model train shop. The ones catering to people who build
their own locomotives have small bulbs of various voltages, though 1.5
and 12 volt are the most common. Prices range from $1 to $3 per bulb.



One thing that you should already realize is that the new ones will
eventually burn out, too. So it would be wise to do the right thing and
replace them with LEDs, and they will last tens of thousands of hours.


I do that routinely at the shop where I work on TAD M-8's and MD-150's,
which use a similar scheme. However, you have to be sure to add
appropriate limiting resistors for each series string!

Cheers,
Fred
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