BRIGHTER DASH BULBS.......anyone have numbers

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tlkolrod

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• Dec 26, 2011

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My wife thinks her dash lights are too dim. I need to brighten things up. Does any one have numbers for the same size bulb but brighter (higher wattage). I should have gotten her a flashlight for christmas!!!!

Thx Toby

 

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• Dec 26, 2011

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I thought some were going with LEDs. Might do a search.

 

JPSmit

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• Dec 26, 2011

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Mark (Abarth69) has halagon lights too.

 

Nelson

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• Dec 27, 2011

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Higher wattage means higher heat. You don't want to cook any of the gauges.

 

RickB

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• Dec 27, 2011

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LED should be brighter, cooler and lower watts.

 

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ABfish

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• Dec 27, 2011

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The only thing that I'd like to have brighter is the turn signal indicator. My kids are giving me grief about driving around with the turn signal on. I told them to wait until I get really old.....

I can't hear the signal over the other "Spridget noises", and the indicator bulb is really dim.

 

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bugi

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• Dec 27, 2011

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The December issue of Austin-Healey Club USA magazine has an article on LED replacement bulbs. The vendor in this case is Super bright LEDS (www. superbrightleds.com)
Gage lighting replacement is WLED-WHP. For turn signal,replacement is WLED-G90. Both of these require a wedge-type receptacle.

 

Jim_Gruber

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• Dec 27, 2011

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Define a wedge type receptacle please.

 

Nelson

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• Dec 27, 2011

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There are pictures of the led's on the web site. Basically I believe that you just push the "bulb" into the socket and not push and twist like the traditional lamps.

www. superbrightleds.com

 

Jim_Gruber

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• Dec 27, 2011

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Nelson I think you need to have a different type of receptacle that the bulb fits into that needs to be wired into the circuit and that will fit into the instrument clusters. I saw bulbs at the site that was referred to but nothing in the way of a socket to plug them into.

 

glemon

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• Dec 27, 2011

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There was extensive discussion of less and brighter instrument lights on both the Big Healey and Triumph lists a few weeks ago would link to them but not sophisticated enough with the smartphone to figure out how to post a link vendors and part numbers included