RE: [DML] Re: Re: Batt. warning light : LED or not ?

["John Hervey" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If a diode is used in either direction then the light is rendered useless.
What do you want the diode to do. Why put it in.
John Hervey



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Stankiewicz [mailto:protodelorean@xxxxxxxxx]
Subject: RE: [DML] Re: Re: Batt. warning light : LED or not ?

What type/size resistor should be put in the circuit
if someone wants to use a diode?

Steve

--- John Hervey <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I will remind the group. You need to use the 161
> bulb in the battery light
> on the dash. Do not use a LED unless the resistance
> in the circuit is
> modified. It acts like a ballast resistor and needed
> to keep from burning up
> the regulator in the alternators. A diode ( will not
> ) do the trick.





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