28-11-2021, 01:54 AM
(28-11-2021, 01:14 AM)Nick Lettington Wrote: Ah... you lied to us... it wasn't a 25w map reading light at all... it was one of Anne's newfangled headlights... 1937 though? They must have borrowed a DeLorean, or stolen it from the GEC Hirst research centre... No wonder they look so furtive!
Well done though. I'd thought of doing the same but hadn't considered putting the tell-tale next to the blue plastic window of another gauge...
I used a tiny 6-volt LED (though a 12-volt might have been less startlingly bright) that, rather handily, just poked through a small hole in the blue plastic window of the fuel gauge. The wire was fastened using a cable tie to a convenience point.
The bulb used is a 3mm type, something like this -