Re: [DML] Re: Rewiring the AC Panel Lights

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I might have another solution to this problem,
I have finally found some LED lights that plug directly into the console 
without modification
that are a decent price, and do not get warm and are pretty bright too.
I am running some tests on them first before I officially anounce them.
In the past, the LED's I had found were about $10 each which was totally 
unaccepatable.
I should be able to offer these pretty cheap if I buy them in bulk.
I think that there will be enough people out there who will want these.
This will also help for those who are going the all LED route.
I have a few customers who are doing that, and replacing every single bulb 
on the car
with LED's, which is cool at a car show because you can leave the running 
lights
on all day without loosing much battery power.

However, I also think that the conversion you mention is worth doing either 
way.
Thanks,
- Videobob


>From: Chris Shepherd <chrisau79@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [DML] Re: Rewiring the AC Panel Lights
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:14:38 -0700 (PDT)
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>Here's an update on that post by me. The addition of the 10 ohm resistor is 
>courtesy of Bruce Benson and this is my current setup. No pun intended.~g~ 
>Well, maybe...... The addition of the resistor dims the lights when on and 
>reduces the heat as well as making them look more like the rest of the 
>lighting.
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>Subject: A/C Panel Illumination
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>Maybe it's time to run this tip again since there are many new subscribers.
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>If you are tired of your A/C lights being on all the time and the heat
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>damage this can do to your radio, here's a simple fix. Remove the access 
>panel
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>behind the passenger seat exposing the relays. Facing the rear you have a
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>bottom row and a top row. Count three from the left on the top row and
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>remove it. Save it ( it's the same as some of the others and can be used as 
>a spare).
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>Get two 1/4" spade connectors and a 10 ohm resistor. Put a spade
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>connector on the wires on each end of the resistor. One end goes in the 
>bottom slot ( closest
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>to you ) and the other goes in the slot to the right. Before you put it all
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>back together start the car ( no illumination ) and then turn on your 
>lights
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>( illumination ). When you have assured yourself that everything works,
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>button it back up. There is a whole electrical diagram that will tell you
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>why this works, but it doesn't really matter. The usual disclaimer applies.
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>Chris
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>Richard <dmc_driver@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "birdwell77095" wrote:
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> > Sometime back someone wrote about rewiring the AC panel lights so
> > that they come on only when the headlights are on. Can someone send
> > me instructions?
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> > Shannon
> > 16113
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>Look here: http://www.dmcnews.com/Techsection/acpanellites.htm
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>Hope this helps. ;-)
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>Richard Rowe
>5853
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