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LED taillight boards/components, 987.2?
So my Spyder fails inspection.
Turns out water had somehow made it into a taillight, and fried the brake light section. The taillight it seems is only available as a complete assembly. This efffffr is mega expensive. If you do not shop shop shop, you will pay upwards of $600. I paid 400-ish shipped. So that’s done. I very gingerly broke down the old light. As it turns out the the light is made up of a number of LED board which can easily be swapped out. As the light is otherwise perfect, it’s worth a shot to fix it. Anyone know of any source of these components? My admittedly brief Ebay, Amazon, and web searches yield no results. Am writing the component maker ULO, but you know how that usually goes.
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Can you post some pics?
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Junk yard for one that is busted but the electronics work?
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^this. Parts should be avail from the common electronic supply houses (digikey, mouser, future, etc.)
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My experience trying to repair light clusters is that while the electronics is easy, the hard part is getting dry air into the inside and getting a good seal.
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Warm up the fixture, Blow clean dry bottled gas/air through then seal them. up tight. If summer do this in AC not the swamp like conditions outside.
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Sorry, will effort a pic today.
As to argon, helium, rectium, it is all of no consequence as the unit is not sealed. Far from it, it’s designed to breathe. The foam rear panel has an assload of holes, leading directly to an open cavity where the boards and loom live.
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'99 Box RIP '06 Jeep Rubicon Unltd RIP '96 Ferd Xploder RIP '78 Guzzi Le Mans (It's alive, it's alive!) '09 Guzzi Griso (AKA Black Betty) '11 987 Spyder (Gone but not forgotten) '13 FJ TT I RIP '13 FJ TT II '22 982 Spyder, missed the Felicity Ace by 'that' much! And they all have something wrong with them. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." Last edited by eltren; 01-28-2020 at 01:06 PM. Reason: Fact |
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