The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
Technical Discussion => BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 => Topic started by: scottyintex on February 18, 2012, 06:21:33 PM
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I sometimes have trouble seeing the neutral light up on the instrument panel....bright Texas sunshine. Is there a LED bulb out there that would replace the neutral light? Has anyone figured out a way to make it brighter? Any mods to make it better?
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nhmaf installed some LED's in the internal lighting for the instruments, don't know if they would improve the neutral light or not .
Other than that, there's not much out there besides the wedge type incandescent bulbs .
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These guys are a WHOLE lot brighter, use less wattage, and don't heat up the instrument.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=%2Fmini-wedge.html%23wled
Use the ones that are sort of cube shaped - a little light circuit on each face. The ones with five will fit, not sure about the nines. I know the nines won't work in the /6 style gauges.
At the very least install one of the illumination bulbs to get rid of the condensation problems. I believe the hot incandescents are the source of condensation in our instruments that rusts them out.
Don't change your charge light with one of these unless you install a bypass resistor, otherwise the charging system won't operate properly.
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IF we can find that thread, I think that the white ones that I used will JUST fit (barely) as the little plastic housing around the neutral bulb is close - somewhere around here I have some slightly different ones that I was going to try out for the neutral and hibeam indicators... will try to locate them to get the part number..
The superbrightleds place has quite a variety of choices - just don't use these LED units for the charge light OR the turn signal indicator on the R65 as both those functions rely on a larger amount of current flow and voltage drop to operate properly.