Same here Red, and that’s why I’m playing around with these LED flashlights as light
donors. LED’s are as cheap as dirt now days as are LED arrays on circuit boards. What
you pay for is the adaptation of the boards to fit in the light housings or in this case a plug
for the AD bed roll.
Again, this is just a couple of the heads off of those cheap little LED flashlights that you
see on the counter displays all over. The plug is made from a PVC plumbing reducer
turned for a snug fit in the roll, and the red lens is cut out of a reflector using a hole saw.
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/122737145/original scroll [next] for more pictures.
All that’s needed is an inexpensive film resistor (Radio Shack) to drop a couple of volts
in the 6v system and of course a higher value resistance for the 12v systems. There are
tons of web pages devoted to the use of LED, here’s one for example:
http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_lighting_leds.html If you don’t want to pay big bucks for LED lighting, then you need to do a little
experimenting and innovating.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
