From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 08:43:52 PDT
Hi John,
I believe the answer is yes. I seem to remember discussion about a led
replacement that works on both 12 and 24. Actually I think it goes higher than
that, but I am not sure.
Hopefully someone else will respond to who has them. Otherwise you will have
to search the archives for "led".
Bruce MVPA 23824
John Brian Seeling wrote:
> I've got a deuce, half-track, and a friend that has a 25-ton pintle-hitch
> lowboy trailer. I've used the deuce and friend's trailer to move my
> halftrack, but his trailer is setup for 12-volt lights and the deuce has the
> 24-volt setup. So when I'm using his trailer, I use a 24-volt "light bar"
> setup to give me tail lights, brake lights and turn signals. It's an 8-foot
> piece of aluminum angle that uses a pair of 24-volt lights that I robbed
> from a parts truck and a long extension cord that goes under the halftrack,
> on the top of the trailer, up to my deuce pigtail. It's a convenient pain
> in the ass, attaching it each time to the trailer with rubber "bungee
> cords." I would like to change my buddy's lights, and just make a pigtail
> adapter for my deuce so I could use his "standard" civilian wiring.
>
> Are there any military-style LED lights that will work alternately on either
> 12 or 24-volts without changing anything other than the voltage source? If
> so, who's got 'em and at what price? Even if I didn't use them on my
> buddy's trailer, I would probably want them for my light bar, since I have
> also used it on other "civilian" trailers that I pull behind my suburban;
> but I had to change the pigtail and light bulbs to work on my "standard"
> 12-volt setup.
>
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