[R-390] Meters - Back Lighting

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> Grimes Co. makes eyebrow lights for the aircraft industry in all sizes.
> plus light assemblies for backlit panels. Which are a whole new can of
> worms to get into. Due to the inherent frugality of hams most will have
> cardiac arrest with the sticker shock. I have made full aircraft panels
> using Grimes systems. I think in the 60's when we did this panel for a
> Lodestar it was over $15,000.
> Hank
> KN6DI

I remember elbow lights. The red ones were crappy, but got better when they
went to blue-green lighting. Those little things never worked good. The trim
ball in the OH-58A/C did not have lighting. We always used the mini cyalumes
to light them.


Barry