I'm trying to locate something similar to the led's in the front panel of an AU-717. The oem ones are about .115" in diameter, slightly tapered from the front to the back where they're stuck in the panel and about .200" deep.

I've looked at Mouser and don't really see anything close enough to the original - usually they're not deep enough.

Any suggestions?

Murray

Are you sure it's dead? LED's have a damn low failure rate.

I believe I know the type you're looking for, and I've never seen them for sale (but I've never looked for one either). If I have to replace one, I'd likely just find anything of an appropriate size and attach it however I could (original clip, glue, silicone caulk, whatever).

Try http://www.ledtronics.com/datasheets/discrete.htm

Have you had a look inside yet? I had one that I thought had a dead LED, but once I got in there I saw that the wires that went to that LED had fallen off. It was a simple fix :-) You may need to get the faceplate partially off to check this (if I remember right), and to do that you need a metrix size 'allen' key to get the volume knob off.

Maybe it's as simple as that.
good luck,
Steve.

Wires fell off mine too.

Ed

It's as dead as Howard Dean's presidential aspirations. I've pulled it from the panel and swapped it with one I got at R Shack just to make sure.

Actually, I killed it with a wiring misadventure. :cry: Long pointless story.

Anyway, it looks almost exactlly like the CL120T at Ledtronics (flat on the end.) So, thanks to blueconnect! A little bit of sanding to reduce the diameter and it should plug right in. I think.

Murray

Murray,

I find myself in the same boat. I remembered this thread and have located the Ledtronics site. I was wondering which CL120T LED you chose, and how did it's brightness compare with the other LEDs?

TIA,

Bill

CL120TR3. It's slightly smaller in diameter and slightly longer than the oem led. All I did was take it out of the shipping bag and stick it in the panel. Haven't plugged it in. I have about eleventeen (including 3 AU-717's) components sorta scattered around everywhere and just haven't got back around to the 717 yet.

Slightly means .002 - .003" or so. I didn't measure it so I'm not exactly sure. This is as close as you're likely to get, tho. I'll try and fire it up tonite and report back.

The cloud on the silver lining is that Ledtronics is a wholesaler and the min order is probably 1,000 or something like that. The guy I talked to over there was kind enough to send me some "samples" :thmbsp: but I'm sure he wouldn't do it again. I'm sure it's a huge pita to process an "order" like this and send it out.

Murray

Pluged the CL120TR3 in and it's definitely brighter than the original. Like about x 2, or so. Or 1.5 x. :shrug:

Looks like some red nail polish is in order to tone it down some. Now, just need to pick the right shade of red. :D

Murray

You could add a resister.

Change the current limiting resistor on the protection board, R603. Looks like stock value is 2.7K, change that to about 3.9K to 6.8K.

Meant to comment on this:It's as dead as Howard Dean's presidential aspirations.
...back when you posted it. It caused me to choke on my Pepsi and I ended up having to clean my keyboard and monitor screen. :lmao:

Sorry about the kybrd, EW. Nothing better than Pepsi to clean a kybrd with!

After doing the easter egg hunt thing, I found R603 on the schematic. 2.7k like you said.

Taking that board out is where I got myself in trouble in the first place. Two red wires on the top, #31 and #32 supply juice to the on/off led and the source indicators. I had tagged all of them but got got them reversed when I put the board back in. Don't know why, but this burned out ALL of the front panel led's. Took me forever to figure it out. #32 (about 20 ga.) is on/off led and #31 is source led (about 24 ga.)

So, I'll try and add a resistor somewhere down stream of board #2663.

Thanks guys!

Murray