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Offline DickW

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Fuel Gauge LED
« on: October 20, 2009, 10:22:37 PM »
I guess I must have received some bad LED when I ordered my Gauge faces. Joe installed the gauges and LEDs at the mod meet. They worked fine till I got home. Tuesday nite the fuel gauge lite quit working. Next Mod meet I wll have some new lites and get Joe to install them. OK Joe?
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Re: Fuel Gauge LED
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2009, 05:14:41 AM »
Bummer, Can Randy take it apart to check the solder leads?
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Re: Fuel Gauge LED
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2009, 10:19:28 AM »
Quote from: DeepBlueGXP on October 21, 2009, 05:14:41 AM
... to check the solder leads?
Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me too.  There are two LEDs there and the likelihood of BOTH going is vanishingly small.
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Re: Fuel Gauge LED
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2009, 12:23:22 PM »
He has upgraded LEDs from blackcatcustoms and there is only two wires to solder.   
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Re: Fuel Gauge LED
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2009, 05:31:26 PM »
Quote from: DeepBlueGXP on October 21, 2009, 12:23:22 PM
He has upgraded LEDs from blackcatcustoms and there is only two wires to solder.   

Right, I was agreeing with you.  The original lights are tiny little incandescents with cute little red hats on them :)

The BlackCats are two LEDs on a PCB.  Unlikely that they've both failed - much more likely that the flying leads have an issue.
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Re: Fuel Gauge LED
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2009, 06:22:25 PM »
Agree
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Re: Fuel Gauge LED
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2009, 10:30:58 AM »
DDM's Randy fixed the lights. Bad solder. Wire pulled loose.
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