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Re: Re: In defense of solid-state devices

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From: chan
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1987 20:42
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In article <1075@eneevax.UUCP> daveb@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (David Bengtson) writes:
>
>  Ok, I'll do My bit to increase the S/N ratio of this group. My 87 VW
>GTI has a Blue LED as the High Beam Indicator. It kinda stands out nicely
>from the Red Idiot lights. All of the related VW models probably have the 
>same setup, so there is at least one makret for them.

Time for a single-ended little noise reduction (:-):  If you look in the VW
manual, you will notice that the red and green indicators are indeed LEDs, but
that the high beam indicator is an incandescent lamp with a curved blue filter
in front of it. (I WISH that they used a blue LED, just to be wierd!)

Jeff C.
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Subject: Re: Re: In defense of solid-state devices
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 15:42:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 15:42:53 1987
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Summary: GTI no blue LED