Bright Instrument Cluster Bulbs

[1982FJoe40]

I should have gone LED. I just replaced my dash bulbs with the CoolCruiser magnum bulbs and I'm now blowing my fuse. Fuse is 15 amp, but I see some circuits are 20 amp. Has anyone else gone through this? Wondering if it's safe to switch to a 20 amp.

 

[White Stripe]

My lighting setup in my gauges are pretty bright and it was inexpensive to do. I think I posted it in my build thread somewhere. I use LED strip

 

[ginmtb]

It is never safe to upsize the fuse without upsizing the wire. You can go reverse (as in 15 amp fuse on a wire designed for 20 amp - but there is a reason they put a 20 amp fuse so you might end up popping the 15 amp, but the wire is safe). LED or EL wire is the way to go for the cluster. Just bite the bullet. I have those bulbs in my stash that never got used (before I kinda knew what I was doing). Now just about every bulb is LED.

 

[DougAustinTx]

I found it easier to just cut out all the metal dividers in the cluster and use the regular bulbs. Plenty bright. Unfortunately, I have not found a way to make the "grain o' wheat" bulb in the headlight switch knob to get very bright.

 

[1982FJoe40]

Thx. Think I'll order led