Tigers,
A modest proposal for your illumination. <9-)
Since the last thing you would want to do at night, tearing up the road
in your too fast Tiger, is take your eyes off the road and look at the
instruments, I am not sure the dash lights should be on at all. After
all, The Prince of Intermittent Light did not really design them to
actually be read, or the lights to function.
However, if one wishes to deviate from use and custom, why not go more
modern.
No, I don't mean electroluminescent talking digital panels with GPS.
Just light.
Let's put a single headlight sized 100 watt halogen blue bulb in a
ventilated light box behind the grill emblem, and lead reflected light
to front mounted lenses with large scale optical cable. The bulb power
wiring, of course, is through a power relay, not direct, and separately
fused from the Lucas "array" of choice. Only 1 bulb, two light outputs.
Additionally, a single fiber optic light bundle of fine glass filaments
is sneakily run back through the dashboard into an optical junction box.
Light pipes are optically linked to the incoming light pipe, and routed
to the old bulb inlets, where they are terminated in a wide angle
plastic lens mount.
Now, with one on switch, one relay, one fuse, and one bulb of modest
power, we have dual front driving/safety lights and a full array of
bright blue-white instrument lights - which can all be shut off with
that one relayed switch.
OK, that's the concept, and parts list. I'll leave the implementation
to all the wonderfully creative tinkers on the list, and will publish
the first illustrated article for the rest to follow.
Steve
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Steve Laifman
Editor
http://www.TigersUnited.com
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