QUOTE (Expat @ 9 Nov 2008, 22:14)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>My apologies Richard. I had no intention of slandering your Masterswitches as they are absolutely superb pieces of equipment. I am, however, a little surprised that they are incompatible with the bi-colour LEDs and, obviously incorrectly, assumed that the 'fix' you provided was a standard solution to overcome that problem.
Wrists duly slapped.
*** Trevor, no big deal as those on list are generally pretty sane, but as to the compatibility comment, in fact they are 100% compatible with every commonly used LED including the bicolour one provided - the reason for the single resistor value was already clearly explained.... Red and green ideally need two different resistor values but we have no control over which of the leds will be which colour... or even if the user will change from a bicolour to two separate leds of different type and colours, and it needs to be at a level safe for ALL...
The only "production option" is to supply two of the same colour - and our research showed that to be a less popular option.
You are only one of two people worldwide who have ever requested variance since V2 was released - and the other was to query modifying the level of the LED outputs so it was usable for his home made computer IO card, not the LED light levels!
I would never offer a general option for modellers to take to a product with a soldering iron - Our already generous warranty would have no meaning at all if I did.
The only generally acceptable "consumer thing" to do would be add a second resistor to the red LED to lower its light level to perfectly match the actually quite Ok level of the green - I gave one-on-one to you a specific internal change knowing that you as an individual were both careful and Ok with a soldering Iron. Consider that a compliment based on my impression of you and your work on your panels!
The only "production option" is to supply two of the same colour - and our research showed that to be a less popular option.
This LED area is something I may well look at for V3, but it will probably mean a change in the provided LED type, not a MS change.
Richard