From: Bigfoot Ghille (ghille@writeme.com)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 20:21:46 PST
My M35A2 has LED modules for the blackout marker lights already. I just assumed all of the plastic housing composite lights had LED markers.
Coby
----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Gill
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:22:26 -0500
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
Subject: [MV] LED Composite lamps
>
> More on this. I received a fax today of the
> engineering drawings of the Rear Composite lights
> that Truck-Lite makes. In this case it was of
> 07240 (green thin lamp) and 07411 (rear thin lamp
> with Bucket). The "thin lamp" is basically a
> replacement front blackout composite unit that
> has the marker and turn/brake light lenses
> integral with the metal and LED units. Even the
> wire harness is attached to it. It does look as
> if the old body assembly could be used if the
> wiring were removed and the new Lens assembly
> were placed over the old bucket.
>
> The units operate on 10-30 volts DC and have 5
> connector boots comi
ng out of the back. The run a
> ground lead w/ boot and the kit with the bucket
> has a lead from that boot to run to a ground
> point on the chassis (rather than grounding
> through the bucket). The unit as a whole doesn't
> even draw an amp of power at 12 volts let alone
> 24 if all lamps are lit up. The housings are
> apparently die cast aluminum (vs the plastic that
> I spoke of before).
>
> I'll definitely see about getting a set of the
> rear lamps once I get the 5 Ton home and I can
> start going through the fiddly bits. I'll report
> what I find.
> --
> Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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