Morris Minor Owners Club

Has anyone used, or know where to get LED's to illuminate the speedo and the inbuilt indicators (Ign, Oil, Main beam). Don't even know if it is possible to do this. This is for a 1970 Traveller. TIA

https://www.moss-europe.co.uk/shop-by-m ... bulbs.html
or here
https://www.classiccarleds.co.uk/collec ... s-1/glb987

They consume 2W apiece. Hardly going to make a lot of difference, as the warning lamps are off most of the time and main beam is not used much of driving time (unless you are nocturnal!).

The alternator, if fitted, requires sufficient current to initially energise the system (the rotor is not a permanent magnet, per se).

Leave the 'Ignition Warning Light' as a conventional bulb if you have an alternator fitted, otherwise LED bulbs work very well and the backlight ones give a nice clear light.

Fitted LED back lights at the weekend from http://www.classiccarleds.co.uk/ - see attached photo - pleased with the results

In order to improve the illumination of the speedometer on my 69 Traveler, particularly at the top around the '50' where the odometer mechanism blocks the light from the two 'backlight' bulbs, I've today fitted a LED strip and a control unit of my own design in the speedometer with an associated potentiometer to provide variable illumination. This potentiometer complete with knob is fitted to a 3 D printed 'P' bracket: this bracket is sandwiched under the bracket for the heater water valve control knob bracket so that the knob is unobtrusively positioned between the valve control knob and the steering column. It seems to work well.

I think my next design will also incorporate a 10V regulator for the fuel tank sender unit and perhaps a low fuel warning light to the left of the 'E' on the fuel gauge, perhaps calibrated to illuminate when there is only 1/2 gallon left in the tank.

I did complete my project about a year ago now and have been pleased with my results going from this:

to this:

Using a strip of LEDs:

I also added a 10V regulator and circuitry for a low fuel level LED: this LED is fitted to a 3D printed bracket next to a speedometer illumination brightness adjust knob behind the heater control cable knob:


The low fuel warning LED is illuminated when there is less than about a gallon left in the tank: this proved accurate on our trip from Lincolnshire to the Isle of Wight last July and has been reliable ever since. Previously I was concerned on how quickly the fuel gauge changed from 1/4 to empty! Now I have the re-assurance of a reliable low fuel indicator that just happens to come on when the gauge needle is about 1/2 way between 1/4 and empty.