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Old August 27th 06, 07:59 PM posted to rec.radio.scanner
L. L. is offline
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Default REQ: Bearcat BC8500XLT wheat lamps to LED conversion.

"Ken Layton" wrote in message
ps.com...

wrote:
I'm tired of playing around with the wheat lamps used to backlight the
front panel and would
like to convert to LED. I don't care snot about retaining the dimming
feature. Any one done
this?'''



What's the problem you're having with the existing setup?


Being totally unfamiliar with this particular scanner - he "might" have a
power supply issue of sorts. I had a radio come in the shop once with bulbs
that kept blowing out - a previous tech did nothing other than replace the
blown bulbs - three times - without trying to corrrect the issue. I placed a
resistor in line and no more blown bulbs. The surge when turning the set
on - apparently was more than the bulbs wanted to see - even though the
readings from the power supply were "as spec'd". The set worked flawlessly
otherwise and since. THAT set was the only one I had seen of that model that
had that issue. I had known many who had the same model with no issues.

That could be a simple repair - without having to do any real mods.........

Just my 2 cents

L.