dash light dimmer help
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Racer
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: berwick pennsylvania
dash light dimmer help
have a lil problem. my dashlights dim so much when it is dark i cant see them. i just finished replacing the light switch(thought was the culprit) and they still dim down to almost nothing when i cover the sensor on the cluster. is there a way to replace/bypass the sensor so they atleast stay full brightness? i do remeber a post way back about this but cant find it. any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
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Shine a light into the photosensor at night, the cluster should go to high brilliance and then determine if all 4 lamps are lit. Each quadrant should be bright, my money is on some burned out backlights.
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Racer
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: berwick pennsylvania
well, tonight i went out to the garage and fired the old girl up, turned on the lights and rotated the dimmer fully counter clockwise the dash lights were nice and dim. i followed your sugestion to shine a flash light into the sensor and the dash lit up like a christmas tree. now for any of you out there. how do you go about replacing the back lights? i will assume that they are all out since no dash lights were brighter than the others before or after the flashlight was shined into the sensor
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Racer
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: berwick pennsylvania
update on my progress. went to batee.com and found the schematic for the dash and the fix was so simple i am pretty mad at myself for it. there is a 3a fuse in the dimmer circuit that was blown lol.wish i would have found that site alot earlier then i wouldnt have had to rip the dash all apart to replace the light/dimmer switch.
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Racer
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Racer
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From: Space Coast Florida
INST FUSE 3A
In fuse box looks like whats being discussed. Glad i found this as Im experincing the same issue, no dim no photocell responce but very bright all the time.
New everything, rebuilt about a year ago with all new parts from batee, built by batee.
In fuse box looks like whats being discussed. Glad i found this as Im experincing the same issue, no dim no photocell responce but very bright all the time.
New everything, rebuilt about a year ago with all new parts from batee, built by batee.
