[TenTec] LED Replacement for Corsair II Meter Light

Brian Carling bcarling at cfl.rr.com
Sun Apr 6 19:13:41 EDT 2014


You might be stuffing too much current through the LEDs. You can buy LEDs for about three cents each on eBay. Put a resistor in series of about 200 or 300 ohms  and have a wonderful pilot lamp for next to nothing.

Best regards - Bry Carling, AF4K



> On Apr 6, 2014, at 6:51 PM, GARY HUBER <glhuber at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> I have also used the BA9SF-W-12VAC LED Lamp ($1.98) in my Corsair-II.  As I ran the Corsair-II for sixteen hours a day, seven days a week until recently, I've run several of these LED lamps to failure over the past few years. It appears the version you are using is a 9 LED model and likely much brighter than the single LED version I’ve been using.
> 
> 73 & DX,
> Gary - AB9M
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Stephen Berg 
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 2:48 PM 
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] LED Replacement for Corsair II Meter Light 
> 
> While I was waiting patiently for Ten Tec to come out with a Corsair III, the meter light in my Corsair II blew out.  Rather than drive to Rockford to buy a new lamp, I decided to try replacing it with an LED unit.  I bought one from superbrightleds.com, and it is their model BA9S-WHP9.  It is the cool white light model.  It really lights up that meter, and despite the back of the meter being somewhat yellow from age, it makes it really readable.  They go for about $10.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Steve WA9JML  
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