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Gear position to LED's Anomaly

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Hi everyone, here's something to think about if you ever try to switch your gear position indicator lights out for some LED's.


With the original 3.4w gear position lights there are 2 benefits and one drawback.
1 they make enough heat to keep the indicator from fogging
2 they draw enough current to to make a good enough connection on the position selector with the pin.
But they do take power and LED's take so little in comparison.

So here is something i ran into when switching mine out for LED's

1 Great power savings, but sometimes the indicators fog up.
2 some positions don't work some of the time until the engine is hot enough that there is no oil on the position sensor.
That's the drawback. A good connection has to be made.


just some fyi


Thanks

Steve
 
What bulbs did you use? Would putting a load resister in get the positions to work when cold?
 
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Hi BassCliff, thanks for the rewelcome. I see your site has allot more info now. That's awesome. I just wish it was around the first time I found the gs site, Remember the stator papers :rolleyes:

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Everything is switched over to LED's now and there are definitely some drawbacks to them.

Mainly fogging and not having enough current to get through dirty connections ( in switches and such)

I've noticed the gear position was the worst of all though.
Besides that the gauges would fog up and sometimes even froze :eek:
So they went back to stock bulbs.

Signal lights are all LED's and brake light is too. I got a simple led relay on Ebay that has power, output, and ground. So it was a very simple install.
 
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