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I believe they sell kits for these.

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""""was not thinking of a cber sat with his makita screwdriver winding round the presets untill his meter said s9+60db from a guy on a handheld 15 miles away""""

the "kit" comes with the display and one LED

i needed the display and 4 LEDs for AM/LSB/USB/CHAN9 on the madison PLUS i wanted to put green lights on the meters

the channel display is in and looking nice i just need to wire the LEDs for the meters and it is done but alas i leave for work momentarily

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REAL radios glow in the dark

http://www.ledsupply.com/reca.php

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thanx 74 ......

i already have a calc for the resistors and plan to pic them up at radio shack on the way home.....

now if i could just find a clock motor for that radio.....

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REAL radios glow in the dark

ok after playing around with a bunch of resistors i had got from radio shack and some more out of my "parts" bin i just couldnt find the level of "brightness" i was looking for so i ended up tying the ground and the 15.2V sources from the original 2 lights together in parallel and ran 6LEDs in series .....PERFECT!!

i set them up in a triangle behind each meter so ive goot a nice green glow coming off of each one

after it gets dark ill take some pics and throw them up

scott

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REAL radios glow in the dark

Nice.

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MoJo
www.mojoenterprises.us

as promised pics of the green

pics came out kind of crappy.... with the flash it was too bright and without was too dark and i havent really figured out how to operate this camera yet

everything came out nice and bright with the exception of the lights behind the clock....

IF i keep the clock in it i may end up going to white LEDs behind it since the light has to filter behind green numbers

the clock in it does not work <needs a motor> and if i cant find a motor for it i think i'm going to tear down a freq counter and install that in the window..... a green LED one of course

scott

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REAL radios glow in the dark

i put a red led light in my madison about 2 yrs ago and havent had a problem with it yet knock on wood