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Fisher 101R dial light replacement
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Decided to bring out the Fisher 101R FM tuner and see what I could do about it picking up the same station at two places on the dial. After three tries at the alignment I got it working good and also cleared up the distortion when using  Pioneer MPX adapter with it.
 Now I decided to try and come up with a work around on the burned out dial lamps.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/2inJMgL.jpg]
  As you see the lights for this are about 3 inches long. I looked around on the net for replacements but could not find any.
 So checking what I had on hand . Decided to try this out. These are extra 8 volt LEDs I had on hand for a Pioneer stereo.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/yNG5shG.jpg]
   Now to figure a way to solder them together with out damaging them.
Came up with this idea.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/ffyHgEp.jpg]
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/YqUj1Wv.jpg]
  A quick light tack solder to hold them together with the piece of spring and a bench test to see if they will work.
The original Fisher dial lamps are 7 volts , so I used a 9v battery with resistor to lower the voltage for the test.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/POdfJAA.jpg]
  The ends of the LEDs are larger than the original lamps so you have to be careful not to break the holders when installing them.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/0asmRNk.jpg]
  Face plate back on and the whole set up in view.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/3SSHwPt.jpg]
  A shot with the room darkened.
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/4cybtPc.jpg]
  Sorry about the blur. But it appears that this will work out. At least for now. Maybe I'll come across some original dial lamps.


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Fisher 101R dial light replacement - by KCMike - 02-07-2019, 09:48 AM
RE: Fisher 101R dial light replacement - by OZ4 - 02-07-2019, 11:33 AM



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