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In Reply to: RE: Need help in replacing receiver dial bulb with correct one posted by ParloFax on May 19, 2010 at 17:29:54
That original lamp was rated 8 volts @ 3 Amps. These 8-volt lamps are no longer made today. However, ANY greater voltage lamp of same or greater current (Amps) rating will work OK. I use 12 or 14 volt types available inexpensively from a local Auto Parts store which provide adequately bright illumination (you can read a station schedule from the spill-over dial illumination alone). The common automobile interior Dome light uses *fuse-style* tubular cases. Or you can pay more for a multi-package of escentially the same bulbs sold on-line as exact replacements.
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Thanks so much Ron for this! I was thrown off by that "code" because I thought I had read here that some of these bulbs were rated in milliamperes instead. And "VO" for volts is strange too for the newbie "futzer" I still am!...
Now off to Maddison Electronics and back home to fix that pup... That SX-535, now generally cleaned up, sure sounds sweet to me BTW! I like how it "develops" at low volume - I play mainly with headphones - and it has sonic qualities that seem lacking with my regular Pioneer SA-7500-II.
Parts Express has 8V 0.25A bulbs - close enough to 0.3A (300 mA)
OK, I get that "O" now, and thanks a lot for that link!
Would you say that a, say, 12 V bulb be perhaps too bright, thus "unbalancing the illumination" of the dial?
A 12V bulb will be dimmer, not brighter since it's only operating at 8V.
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