On Mar 12, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Roy wrote:
I got radical. I fashioned a strip made from a old ruler, painted it
to
match the meters' trim, mounted two # 47 sockets on its underside and
attached it just at the bottom FRONT of the meters using spacers and
velcro
fasteners. Now the meters are front lighted like in the old days
(Millen
used to make such meter front panel brackets for this very purpose).
The
lamps are powered externally by a small transformer. Sweet comfort. No
dreading the day when lamps need replacing.
According to Garey - K4OAH, who is an expert on Drake equipment (if
you are on the Drake list, you are very familar with him and his
expertise), if you replace the number 47 bulbs with number 755
instead they will last the life of the equipment. In my case it was an
SPR-4 receiver, but I expect the lifetime of a Titan III would be
about the same.
Geoff.
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Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendelson@gmail.com
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in the Wikipedia.
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