[Mg-t] Ignition lamp

[Douglas Ormrod]

Your lens is green? Mine is blue! What should it be? Don't want to miss
out on that 0.00001 of a point at the next concourse!

Douglas

-----Original Message-----
From: mg-t-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:mg-t-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of mgbob at juno.com
Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2011 3:57 a.m.
To: johnsfolly at gmail.com
Cc: lawrie at britcars.com; mg-t at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Mg-t] Ignition lamp

  The resistance wire winding on my fuel indicator lamp lost its
continuity
years ago.   What I should have done was to wire a resistor in place to
lower
the voltage to the lamp. What I did was to simply jump with a wire.
Thus the
green light is bright, and hot.  When the light first begins to wink, I
loosen
the bezel until tank is filled, as I do not want to burn the green lens.
Can someone suggest a bulb that is readily available and a suitable
resistor?Bob

---------- Original Message ----------
From: JohnD <johnsfolly at gmail.com>
To: MG T List <mg-t at autox.team.net>
Cc: Lawrie Alexander <lawrie at britcars.com>
Subject: Re: [Mg-t] Ignition lamp
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:16:49 -0400

Thanks, everyone. This socket is one of the original ones from the car.
For
some reason, the center terminal was "shorter" than the other two
sockets I
had around.  The little screw base bulbs I had been using (which sure
did
NOT look like they were correct) would not touch the center terminal
when
the bezel was screwed back on. Dug around in my "electro-this-and-that
box"
and found a long, narrow bulb of unknown application. It works in my
"defective" socket but it's 4 watts. So, I switched sockets and now have
a
REALLY bright low fuel warning lamp! Hope it won't melt the green lens.
-John Deikis

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