4KQ "hot" wire and digidash escapade

[Huw Powell]

>>So now we have the digidash AND something I don't recall:  A permanent red
>>light around the cigarette lighter.  Is that thing supposed to glow when
>>the key and lights are off?  Will that little bulb run down the battery any
>>faster than the clock?
> 
> 
> No, that's only supposed to come on with the headlights/parking lights
> and is wired to the circuit after the instrument panel illumination
> dimmer (i.e., should glow along with all dash lighting).

> So its power comes from the light switch in the dash, eh?  The PO of the
> car had really hacked up that wiring and I rehacked some of it several
> years ago when the light switch connector plastic melted.  I must have
> crossed something, I suppose.  I'd rather pull the bulb than pull the dash
> off again to get to that wiring.

It is daisy-chained off the grey wire that feeds the center console 
lighting, so it might not be that hard to set up properly.  Or, as you 
say, pull the bulb if finding it in the dark doesn't matter to you.

-- 
Huw Powell

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