Re: [DML] Breaking it

["Christopher M. Hawes" <chris@xxxx>]

Thanks for the theories flying in about my lack of break lights. I will try
cleaning the connections on the boards. Without a circuit diagram I can
only act on the hunch that if it was a board problem then at least one set
of my break lights lights would be working. All other aspects of the boards
such as the indicators etc all work as normal on each of the 2 boards.

I hope to clean the connections tomorrow night and check the switch. I can
see that it isn't stuck, I guess like Aaron's situation the switch is
probably well and truly dead...

I will post my findings

Chris H.
#5255

----- Original Message -----
From: aaron_t_graham <aaron_t_graham@xxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [DML] Breaking it


> My brake lights went out a couple of months ago. There were
> basically four things I needed to check (otherwise I was going to
> need to do a lot of wire checking):
>
> 1) Maybe The circuit boards connections are bad. I'd heard these
> were a problem, but I didn't think this was the case because (I
> assumed) it wouldn't explain all 4 lights going out at the same time.
> 2) The bulbs...Likewise with (1), it wouldn't explain them all going
> out at once. I tested the bulbs anyway.
> 3) A fuse. I checked and replaced just to make sure, but that wasn't
> the problem.
> 4) The switch.
>
> Sure enough, it was the last thing I checked (the switch). After
> taking the switch off I noticed that the switch was stuck in the "in"
> position (obviously, since the lights were off). I used pliers and
> quite a bit of force to get it un-stuck, but it didn't work after
> that. Ordering a new one was quick, easy, and cheap (I guess), and
> installing it took about 5 minutes.
>
> Aaron
> #1506
>
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