[TowerTalk] Yaesu Rotors
Jim Brown
jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Fri Nov 11 08:19:40 PST 2011
On 11/11/2011 8:02 AM, Mike Ryan wrote:
> I hope someone can help here. Has anyone replaced the lamps in the CONTROL
> box that illuminate the meter face? If so what did you use, where did you
> get the lamps? I suppose Radio Shack has something that might work..not
> worried about an exact replacement. Just want to light it up as the bulbs
> have gone out.
I encountered that problem a year or two ago -- the bulbs in my Yaesu
controller burned out after only about six months, clearly a design
failure. It looked to be quite difficult to replace them, and also to
find replacements, so I improvised the installation of a couple of white
LEDs alongside the right side of the display, poked around the schematic
to find V+, and connected the LEDs to V+ through suitable dropping
resistors to limit the current. Two years later, they're working fine.
although the original bulbs illuminated the face more uniformly.
73, Jim K9YC
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