Map Light #293?..., Dome light? Options

[JoKeRkId613]

I just fixed my car's horn and am about ready to go from regular factory bulbs to LED bulbs all around the car. Every light will be replaced, except of course, the headlights, in which case I just upgraded to Nokya bulbs and harness. I'm a little confused when looking at the Sylvania Replacement Guide for my lights... There's a thing there that says "Map Light" and the bulb number is 293. I assume they're talking about the Dome light... I would need 2 bulbs. And if so, where can I find an LED 293? I checked autolumination.com and I didn't find anything. If there are no 293 LEDs, where can I find a 293 bulb in blue? Thanks...

EDIT: The light in the ash tray box is a 74, right?

This post has been edited by JoKeRkId613: Nov 24, 2005 - 11:58 PM

[Zimluura]

i'm a big fan of LEDs for the follwoing reasons.

durable, low power consumption per light emitted, very saturated color (LED blue is a hell-of-allot blue-er than incandescent with a blue filter), very long lifespan (for the LED itself, not neccessarily the other components in the circuit).

that being said i have had some problems with a few of my leds recently. a guage cluster led (5led matrix) started to flicker on me after about 10 months. and the num74 i put in my auto transmission seems to have had a malfunction yesterday.

as for the gauge cluster one i have no idea what could've gone wrong. the auto transmission one i had to file down a bit to get it to fit. and i also took the led out of it's housing and re-seated it, it seemed like this one had a resistor problem, which was possibly due to my re-seating the led in it's base.

just took another num74 led, filed it down a ton (almost to the cathode) and installed it without re-seating it. hopefully this will last for the next 10 years.

incandescent bulbs offer a few things too. at present, they can be brighter, it'll still be a while before we all light our houses with leds. and if you don't turn them on and off they can last a really long time (the longest running lightbulb in the world has been going for over 100 years i think). as for the automotive application, the only reason i can think of is that the toyota sockets are made to house them so the actual bulb can be simpler. where the led has to retro-fit an led and resistor into a num74 socket. though i could just be having a spell of bad luck, statistically it's probably all good, since i've replaced sooo many bulbs with leds and only had 2 failures. but, to be quite frank, i've gotten so addicted to how nice the led color is that i'll never go back to incandescents.

btw - when inserting the auto-transmission light i accidentally dropped it. this is a bad thing because i totally don't know where it is (probably under my floor carpet, never to be seen again. so, uhh be careful of that.

good luck