bob hughes
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Well I have plucked up the courage and have removed the last of the electric harness from under the dash on my BJ7. One thing that I did notice was that the new harness came with a bulb holder for the indicator light that was more in keeping with a headlamp or the speedo ie. it would not fit the indicator light unit.
Two years ago I was dabbling with putting LEDs into the instrumentation due to the definite lack of brightness and amongst the various LEDs I aquired for the purpose, I had bought some LEDs with a BA9 configuration and also a BA9 bulb holder- these are negative earth bits of equipment so need to be isolated from the car to make it viable. These bits were spare and I have just finished experimenting with a setup that would appear to work.
The indicator light unit is of a green plastic and so is isolated from the car. The BA9 bulb holder is a single contact unit so I made that the earth, and then bonded the negative wire to the body of the bulb holder and incorporated the bulb holder into a neoprene tube - it fits snugly into the indicator holder - job almost done. I bench tested the set up and it works so now I just have to incorporate it into the harness wiring and we are away.
Bob
Two years ago I was dabbling with putting LEDs into the instrumentation due to the definite lack of brightness and amongst the various LEDs I aquired for the purpose, I had bought some LEDs with a BA9 configuration and also a BA9 bulb holder- these are negative earth bits of equipment so need to be isolated from the car to make it viable. These bits were spare and I have just finished experimenting with a setup that would appear to work.
The indicator light unit is of a green plastic and so is isolated from the car. The BA9 bulb holder is a single contact unit so I made that the earth, and then bonded the negative wire to the body of the bulb holder and incorporated the bulb holder into a neoprene tube - it fits snugly into the indicator holder - job almost done. I bench tested the set up and it works so now I just have to incorporate it into the harness wiring and we are away.
Bob