Re: New Radio Kills Dash Lights!

[Charles Schwartz <cschwart@stern.nyu.edu>]

In a message dated 97-04-29 12:29:48 EDT, you write:

<< I installed a new radio into my '86 4000 over the weekend.  I was able to
 identify the speaker wires fairly easily, but I had some trouble with the
 power wire.  There was a 4 wire connector to the back of the radio.  The
 colors were brown, red, grey/blue, and white.  I got current from the red,
 and ground from the grey/blue. The white was related to the chime.  I don't
 know about the brown.  Anyway, now I have no dash lights.  
 
 Help!
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 Charles,

<The gray/blue is your dash lights wiring.  You may have ... uh... let's
say...uh...destroyed your light dimmer switch.

The red is +12vdc, the brown is ground, the white is antenna power for the
amplified antenna, and the gray/blue WAS the dash lights.  The dimmer has a
special resistive foil that can burn out in a "flash" (dual meaning here, for
sure).  See definition for "$$" in archives...  Unfortunately, the power is
unswitched, unfused, DIRECT from "line 30", unadulterated battery
power...ugh...

Bruce Johnson
85 4Ksq
Olympia, WA

Thanks to Bruce and everyone else who showed me the error of my ways.
Brown equals ground . . . brown equals ground . . . blue stripe equals no
light.

So, anybody got an extra dimmer switch to sell?

Charles