Replacement Dial Lights - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

JohnBHanson · 10th Feb 2015, 12:21 am

I have successfully added a dial light to a clock radio - it used to have luminous dial, but that has since given up. I used an led slight strip, cut to size and wired with a smoothing cap and a resistor to the un-regulated rail of the radio. Works a treat. Worth considering if anyone has a dial light to replace. It gives a good even illumination, but you may prefer to use a slightly yellow filter to give it a more authentic colour.

As the led strip has a sticky back it just sticks where it is wanted.

For info the radio I modified was a 13RS273, Philips clock radio. Now looks wonderful and I can read the time in the morning.

Nymrod121 · 10th Feb 2015, 10:25 am

Good to hear of this success story

I went through a similar exercise with a Sony tuner-amplifier whose festoon tubular lamps were either blown or well-blackened. I'd picked up some reduced-price cool-white LED strips (not the flexible variety) from Maplin which after trimming to length fitted nicely within the metal 'trough' at the back of the tuning scale:-

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...76&postcount=4

Best wishes
Guy

BottleMan · 12th Apr 2015, 11:18 am

I added LED lights to my Eddystone 840C. I got the strip from Rapid and it was just the right length. I've run it off the heater circuit of this AC/DC radio and had to be careful with the fixing and support as it would be "live". Picture on demand if you want to see (PM)
Graham

10th Feb 2015, 12:21 am	#1
JohnBHanson Heptode Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Worthing, Sussex, UK. Posts: 661	Replacement Dial Lights I have successfully added a dial light to a clock radio - it used to have luminous dial, but that has since given up. I used an led slight strip, cut to size and wired with a smoothing cap and a resistor to the un-regulated rail of the radio. Works a treat. Worth considering if anyone has a dial light to replace. It gives a good even illumination, but you may prefer to use a slightly yellow filter to give it a more authentic colour. As the led strip has a sticky back it just sticks where it is wanted. For info the radio I modified was a 13RS273, Philips clock radio. Now looks wonderful and I can read the time in the morning.

10th Feb 2015, 10:25 am	#2
Nymrod121 Nonode Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Worcestershire, UK. Posts: 2,052	Re: Replacement Dial Lights Good to hear of this success story I went through a similar exercise with a Sony tuner-amplifier whose festoon tubular lamps were either blown or well-blackened. I'd picked up some reduced-price cool-white LED strips (not the flexible variety) from Maplin which after trimming to length fitted nicely within the metal 'trough' at the back of the tuning scale:- https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...76&postcount=4 Best wishes Guy __________________ "What a depressingly stupid machine." [Marvin: HHGTTG]

12th Apr 2015, 11:18 am	#3
BottleMan Tetrode Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Ashford, Kent, UK. Posts: 93	Re: Replacement Dial Lights I added LED lights to my Eddystone 840C. I got the strip from Rapid and it was just the right length. I've run it off the heater circuit of this AC/DC radio and had to be careful with the fixing and support as it would be "live". Picture on demand if you want to see (PM) Graham