Beaky yes the one sitting on the pliers is my own work. I take the bulb holder out of the board, and solder in a ultra-bright LED with a resistor onto it.
This tells the story:
I love LEDs in pins, but my wallet wont stretch to buy enough that I want. So after seeing the results like others get I decided to make my own, well my own way of easily installing them. Once I got the resistors onto them, came the question of how to mount. I know soldering straight to the pcb would make sense, but I dont want to wreck my lamp pcbs.
This was proto-type no1 (snapped-off bottom of a 555 incandescent bulb). Feel free to laugh, but it did work, just not very well lol
Then decided to solder them into the lamp holder sockets. With a bit of mucking around I reckon I have got it rite, and am happy with the results. Putting the white sleeve (just 4 core wire covering) was my best innovation lol Easy enough to mount them this way, I will not wreck my pcbs, and easy to de-solder should the leds fail. Oh I found the easy way to get the polarity rite was to solder the long leg (resistor mounted one) to the side of the socket marked with a "-" on it. I found I can get 2 LEDs easily enough in the one socket for larger inserts.
DIY LEDs at 20 to 40 cents each.
:cool:
LED resistor calculator:
http://led.linear1.org/1led.wiz
