[Milsurplus] GRC-9 rec dial light

[John Watkins]

Actually LEDs will work just fine on 1.5V, in fact without a current limiter they will burnout if you just put the directly across a 1.5 battery.  HP also makes some low voltage/current LEDs if you can find them.

John. WD5ENU

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On Jan 30, 2014, at 18:50, "Meir WF2U" <wf2u at ws19ops.com> wrote:

> I didn't look at the GRC-9 manual when I posted about the bulbs, so I was
> unaware that the bulb is on the 1.4 V receiver filament bus. In this case of
> course, there is nothing of the sort in the LED department...
> 
> Meir
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hue Miller
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:34 PM
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] GRC-9 rec dial light
> 
> It's clear to me now that i should have stated, part of the challenge is
> that you ( I ) cannot seem
> to find any LEDs that will work from 1.4 - 1.5 volts.
> Hue
> 
> 
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