[Boatanchors] LED Replacements for #47 bulbs

[doc at kd4e.com]

For any who do not know, if you roughen the surface of an LED you
will cause the light to be more diffuse than focused.  That may help
with full-dial illumination.

> The LEDs from cointaker.com have arrived. Here's my very subjective
> evaluation ...
>
>     The blue, red and green ones have the most intense color and look
>     great as dial lamps.
>     The purple ones give off a "sexy blue" light also pretty intense.
>     The orange one is the next in color saturation with yellow and pink
>     being the least saturated.
>     Both the "cool white" (faint bluish tint) and the "normal white"
>     give off lots of illumination, but seemingly not quite as much as
>     the #47 bulb.
>
> Also of note is the fact that the actual "bulb" portion of the LEDs
> isn't as tall/long as the 47 bulb's. This means that iin some mounts,
> like the horizontal one in my HQ-140-X, there may need to be an
> adjustment to the lamps position to fully illuminate the dial. Mounts
> that point the bulb at the dial should be OK without any adjustment. The
> metal base of the LED lamps is the same as the 47 bulbs so that
> exchanging them is easy.
> At only 69 cents each and simple 1st class postage for shipping, this
> was cheap and easy FUN!
> Bob AG5X

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