Questions about LEDs for Instruments

[Rasta Monsta]

Originally Posted by aj951

i installed the wled-5 units from superbright about 4 years ago and they work fine with the dimmer.

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[aj951]

Tell me AJ, do they dim like before or just at the top range of the dimmer? Also when you dim do they dim ok to start with then suddenly cut off?

9FF,

They dim just like the OEM incandescent bulbs and use the full range of the dimmer potentiometer. They do not cut off, even at the full dim position.

A.J.

[wild man]

Originally Posted by aj951

9FF,

They dim just like the OEM incandescent bulbs and use the full range of the dimmer potentiometer. They do not cut off, even at the full dim position.

A.J.

Excellent! It's good to hear that they do operate within the full range of the pot.

I CAN vouch for the fact that manufacturing tolerances, slash quality control, currently lies somewhere between horrible and non-existant at this stage of the LED game. I recently purchased 10 E27 base replacements for household bulbs, and 2 of them did not work, right out of the box. That amounts to a 20% failure rate. You just have to put up with that for now, I suppose. But that number has got to improve, as time goes by.

[9FF]

It seems that the WLED-5 dim the full range so the tunnel lights are fine. Problems must start when the other instrument lights get swapped out as they are all on the same dimming circuit.

I did all mine at once so I had no reference as to which LEDs actually caused the dimmer to stop functioning correctly.