ok, well yesterday i got my autometer fuel pressure guage, got it mounted and for the light source i just hooked it up to my headlight switch.... well it must of wiggled its way out of the switch housing, an grounded out on something which caused the smoking. Well now i have no accessory lights??? i pulled apart the temp control housing on the console, an the bulbs where blown in there, so im guessing all of the bulbs just blew??? Tommorow im gonna pull the instrument cluster apart an replace all the bulbs an see what happens.... anybody think that maybe it could be any thing else?? there are no blown fuses by the way.
headlight switch started smoking, now no dash lights???
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ok, the head light switchs cant even handle the power there suppose to handle, and u plugged in somthing else, u proble fried a wire or the switch, get a multi meter and check all the wireing and the switch.
im not sure i follow. you hooked up 12 volts for lighting of your FP gauge at the headlight switch. then the wire for the FP gauge backed out of the switch housing. if so, it touching metal would not blow anything. the circuit is dead.
if a wire from the gauge backed out and grounded, then yes, you could have shorted out the circuit.
and that bulb for the FP gauge probably draws like 5 watts, so it probably draws like .4 amps. no biggie.
i would double check the fuses (13 for ISO and 4 for lighting, IIRC). did you eyeball the fuses or check continuity. more than one person has eyeballed them and it turned out to be bad.
if all else fails, check the dimmer - you could have fried it.
good luck.
if a wire from the gauge backed out and grounded, then yes, you could have shorted out the circuit.
and that bulb for the FP gauge probably draws like 5 watts, so it probably draws like .4 amps. no biggie.
i would double check the fuses (13 for ISO and 4 for lighting, IIRC). did you eyeball the fuses or check continuity. more than one person has eyeballed them and it turned out to be bad.
if all else fails, check the dimmer - you could have fried it.
good luck.
BINGO HISSIN gets the jack pot. I what had happend, was moisture had gotten into the gauge itself somehow (it just got done raining pretty hard) an i think it might have been the culprit. The dimmer switch is toast.... after i took instrument cluster apart to inspect the bulbs i seen the where all fine. checked all the fuses an they all checked out. then i seen a wire running from the dimmer switch to the headlight switch. thats the one i had hooked up to the f.p. guage. i just turned the dimmer switch all were all the interior lights were on, an BAM the lights came on for the instrument cluster....
glad to hear you got it fixed! nice work.
i normally put a one amp fuse on lights for gauges like that (where they could short or fry). that way you dont lose anything else. just an idea. again, nice work.
i normally put a one amp fuse on lights for gauges like that (where they could short or fry). that way you dont lose anything else. just an idea. again, nice work.
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