Nifty, I have run LEDs for several years. My experience has been very good as
well.
You can see my story here:
http://www.kk0sd.net/rotorlight/rotorlight.htm
73,
Joe kk0sd
> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 20:28:01 -0700
> From: jpk5lad@cox.net
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] LED fix for your rotator
>
> The older I get, the harder it is to read the dial on my CDE/Hy-Gain/MFJ
> rotor
> control boxes. I never could get very good mileage on the 28 volt bulbs
> powered
> by the internal meter power supply. Those bulbs were not regular residents
> in my
> junk box, and several attempts to provide illumination some other way were
> less
> than successes. I even tried the RotorEZ folks but they won't respond to
> their
> customers' calls.
>
> Recently, I discovered an easy to provide, inexpensive, and easily
> reproducible
> way to light up those control boxes. I just uploaded the article to my
> website.
> Go to the home page on my website at: <www.hayseed.net\~jpk5lad\>
> On the lower left area of the home page menu, choose "Repairing Antenna
> Rotators"
> This will take you to the "Repairing a Rotator" page that gives a selection
> of
> several articles on rebuilding and repairing ham antenna rotators.
>
> The new article is titled, "Adding LED Illumination to Antenna Rotator
> Control
> Box" and is menu choice #4.
>
> I hope this provides you with some useful hints to make your ham activities
> even
> more enjoyable.
>
> 73,
> Jim - K5LAD
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