[Yaesu] FT-1500 backlight

[WD8 O KN]

I own two of the 1500s and love em both.  Absolutely no problems with the
radios.  I wouldn't make a change and risk messing something up.

Sean
WD8OKN  


On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:07:34 -0400 David Willmore
<davidwillmore@iamanidiot.com> writes:
> 
> I just got my new FT-1500 today and I love it.  It's got
> all of the nice features of my FT2500M, but smaller.  The
> one thing that I don't like is the blue backlight--yeah,
> not that I don't like the blue, but my car uses red backlight
> for everything, so it won't fit in.  I was looking at the 
> mods on te www.mods.dk site and I saw the handset blue led
> mod.  That got me to thinking about changing the LED in the
> head unit to make it RED.  A quick look at the schematic
> and the driving circuit is a typical pseudo-constant current
> type of design.  Cool, drop in an different LED, noone should
> mind.  I looked at the part number of the exisiting LED and
> stopped cold.  (LEDs are a bit of a hobby for me, so I
> recognized the part number)  Its a 3mm *white* 60 degree
> led--1.5cd.  Hmmm, the LED isn't what's making the display
> blue, there must be a filter in there.  That's going to
> make putting a red LED int here problematic.
> 
> So, What does everyone else think?  Should I hack into this
> thing or just learn to live with it?  I'm leaning towards
> the latter.
> 
> Cheers,
> David N0YMV
> 
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WD8OKN
Michigan

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