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Pagodatastic

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Dashboard Lights. Anyone Upgraded?
« on: January 09, 2023, 13:06:06 »
Dear SLers,
Many of you have been so helpful on my upgrading my external lights to LEDs on my SL280.
Thank you so much.
Wondered if anyone had successfully upgraded the various dashboard bulbs to LEDs or is it a waste of time?
Thank you
Best
Steve
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Lorsar

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Re: Dashboard Lights. Anyone Upgraded?
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2023, 14:18:42 »
The tech manual is pretty detailed:

https://www.sl113.org/wiki/Electrical/InstrumentLights

Also check the search as I recall there was just recently a conversation on this.
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Re: Dashboard Lights. Anyone Upgraded?
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2023, 14:33:03 »
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Re: Dashboard Lights. Anyone Upgraded?
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2023, 14:57:07 »
Steve
The LEDs are a great improvement,difficulty is access....

Paul

https://photos.app.goo.gl/szt8wmboqiWzhPKY7
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Re: Dashboard Lights. Anyone Upgraded?
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2023, 18:43:36 »
Yes did mine, great improvement
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Re: Dashboard Lights. Anyone Upgraded?
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2023, 11:31:07 »
Thank you all.
Much appreciated
S
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Re: Dashboard Lights. Anyone Upgraded?
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2023, 18:05:30 »
I replaced mine and agree that it is a big improvement. But I did it because I hade the tach and speedo out for other reasons. I don’t think I’d mess with removing the instruments just to replace the lights
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