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What have you done to your Elgrand today?

Elliematt83 said:
Hope you have a screen while getting showered :eek:🤣
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🤣🤣🤣 well we have been stuck inside a tiny apartment with no garden and extra large windows so it’s been so hot! So let’s say we have been feeling abit claustrophobic 🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
I spent Friday morning breaking up the white:
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CMR 7 said:
The old girl passed her MOT yesterday..👍
No advisories either.
In the words of the MOT tester" its one heck of a machine"

Happy days.😁😁
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always gives you a great feeling when they go straight through
CMR 7 said:
The old girl passed her MOT yesterday..👍
No advisories either.
In the words of the MOT tester" its one heck of a machine"

Happy days.😁😁
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gives you great feeling when they go straight through....
 
Took it for a spin, to go and price some outside repair jobs. (Hopefully ease back into some form of social distancing work over the coming weeks)
And then took advantage of Tesco' s 99p fuel 😁
 
CMR 7 said:
The old girl passed her MOT yesterday..👍
No advisories either.
In the words of the MOT tester" its one heck of a machine"

Happy days.😁😁
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Good stuff____thought you got a mot extension if mot was after March, due to covid etc (6 months ???)
 
Today I completed the gear select back lighting. My first attempt was to use a bright LED fitted in the standard bulb socket and bent at a jaunty angle to get as much light into the diffuser as possible, but this ended up just as pathetic as the original bulb.

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So I decided to light up the symbols from directly behind which involved removing a bit of paint from the diffuser to the rear of the N and D. The P and R have no paint. Then I wired up some SMD LED's to test the theory and these were a marked improvement when place directly on the diffuser.

The pics below show how they are wired.

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The next stage was to wire four LED's to a section of veroboard with the relevant bias resistors fitted. I shrink wrapped the board for protection.
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To fix the LED's in place on the diffuser I didn't want to use a glue of any type as this is rather experimental and some LED's have a habit of failing fairly quickly, so I came up with the idea of using a length of very sticky insulation strip which happened to be the exact width I needed, and I carefully laid them up in position.

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Then a final test before refitting.

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It was then just a matter of fitting a couple of bullet connectors to the wiring and putting it all back together.

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Hopefully the LED's will not fail too quickly as it's a bit of a faff removing it all. Time will tell.
 
Stempyuno said:
Today I completed the gear select back lighting. My first attempt was to use a bright LED fitted in the standard bulb socket and bent at a jaunty angle to get as much light into the diffuser as possible, but this ended up just as pathetic as the original bulb.

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So I decided to light up the symbols from directly behind which involved removing a bit of paint from the diffuser to the rear of the N and D. The P and R have no paint. Then I wired up some SMD LED's to test the theory and these were a marked improvement when place directly on the diffuser.

The pics below show how they are wired.

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The next stage was to wire four LED's to a section of veroboard with the relevant bias resistors fitted. I shrink wrapped the board for protection.
View attachment 34031

To fix the LED's in place on the diffuser I didn't want to use a glue of any type as this is rather experimental and some LED's have a habit of failing fairly quickly, so I came up with the idea of using a length of very sticky insulation strip which happened to be the exact width I needed, and I carefully laid them up in position.

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Then a final test before refitting.

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It was then just a matter of fitting a couple of bullet connectors to the wiring and putting it all back together.

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Hopefully the LED's will not fail too quickly as it's a bit of a faff removing it all. Time will tell.
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Great job!! Well done 😁
 
Stempyuno said:
Today I completed the gear select back lighting. My first attempt was to use a bright LED fitted in the standard bulb socket and bent at a jaunty angle to get as much light into the diffuser as possible, but this ended up just as pathetic as the original bulb.

View attachment 34028

So I decided to light up the symbols from directly behind which involved removing a bit of paint from the diffuser to the rear of the N and D. The P and R have no paint. Then I wired up some SMD LED's to test the theory and these were a marked improvement when place directly on the diffuser.

The pics below show how they are wired.

View attachment 34029
View attachment 34030

The next stage was to wire four LED's to a section of veroboard with the relevant bias resistors fitted. I shrink wrapped the board for protection.
View attachment 34031

To fix the LED's in place on the diffuser I didn't want to use a glue of any type as this is rather experimental and some LED's have a habit of failing fairly quickly, so I came up with the idea of using a length of very sticky insulation strip which happened to be the exact width I needed, and I carefully laid them up in position.

View attachment 34032

Then a final test before refitting.

View attachment 34033

It was then just a matter of fitting a couple of bullet connectors to the wiring and putting it all back together.

View attachment 34034

Hopefully the LED's will not fail too quickly as it's a bit of a faff removing it all. Time will tell.
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Looks well cool. Great job mate.
 
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