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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…

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The switch is, of course, not intended to be repairable, but that’s something of a motivator around here.
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I can’t recall the last time I used a phone book
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This being my second Zire 71, things went smoothly…
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Each one has a brass tube to define the dot and a white plastic diffuser to eliminate hotspots.
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It seems I ain’t worth a damn in the morning without a hot cuppa.
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Perhaps the defrost cycle hadn’t started yet?
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So a reasonable thing to do is buy raw cells from a nominally reputable supplier, do a heart transplant, and see if that improves the situation.