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Dashboard gear selection globes

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I've got a GS400 and on the dashboard it illuminates the current gear selection. Only one of the bulbs is working, the other 5 are dead. Can these globes be replaced? What spec are they? Where can I get them from? Pic below:

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A bit of digging around on google and some pot luck has yeiled what I think is the OEM part number 09471-12071. They are pretty expensive, especially when I need 5 of them. Does anyone have a cheap alternative for these bulbs?
 
maybe you could finagle an LED into those spots instead. i've never seen bulbs like that before.
 
Are the filaments actually failed or are the connections just disconnected?

Maybe you could just resolder them back in or something...
 
filament has blown unfortunately.

Ooooh! I was able to pull the bulb out of that rubber housing. And it looks pretty rudimentary. It's just a christmas tree fairy light.
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If I can find a little 12v LED with similar dimensions I might be able to fit that instead.
 
Have a look on BassCliff's site, he has a tutorial somewhere on how to change them to LED's.

  1. With the PCB out of the holder you should see a short orange wire with a male bullet connector, this is the common +12V for the lamps.
  2. Some of these PCB's have a diode fitted and others just have the two holes without tracks for the diode. The +12V goes to the common of the lamps directly if no diode or through the diode if there is one to the lamps common.
  3. In either case use the holes to mount a resistor in series with the orange wire and the common of the lamps. You may have cut the track and add connections.
  4. Use common bright clear white 5mm leds and solder them to the two pins that the lamp holder is plugged into. The anode of the led goes through the resistor towards the common +12V and the cathode towards the individual wires coming from the gear position switch.
Hope this helps.;)
 
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The OEM bulbs cost a packet, my local electronics store had some similar replacement bulbs for loose change but it needed a little tweaking to fit. I made a vid of it if anyone is interested in a cheap fix.

http://youtu.be/OpFfQSE4pUc
 
I got ya', legs on the lights were too short, so you've just added wire and pulled it through the socket, taped it on the outside to hold it in place.
 
The old bulbs you can see in the pic above, the wires simply poke through a hole in the rubber holder and were then bent over at the base to hold in place. When you plug the rubber and globe onto the circuit board the contact pins on the board make contact with the globe wires and completes the circuit.

Steps:
- I pulled out the old blown globe from the rubber holder.
- A new globe with the long yellow wires is inserted into the rubber holder and I pull the wires through until the bulb is sitting neatly in the holder.
- The excess lengths of wire are trimmed.
- I then pull the insulation off the copper wires, they were not solid core so I had to twist them.
- I bend over the wires like the originals but then wrap some insulation tape around the rubber to make sure I don't get any shorts.

Done.
 
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