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| robsea80 |
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hello i just put a trip computer in to my el it all works great but has 1 problum it lights up when ignition is on but when i turn the head lights on 1 side lights up and the lcd dosent it turns off.i wired it up using the doco any one have any idea on what happening thanks.
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| Low EL |
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Age: 44 Posts: 314 Joined: 5th Nov 2004 Ride: Fairlane Location: Cairns, Far North Queensland |
Its cause of the cluster. You need to add the resistor into the cluster to make the lights work. Its mentioned somewhere in the install docco.
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| Krytox |
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hrmm,
Ignition on: LCD does illuminate so you can see it in the day. The side panel doesn't. Parkers on: The LCD remains lite, and the 'avg, dist etc, (side panel) illuminates. Sounds pretty straight forward to me. But if this isn't the case, you may have the dimmer/parkers wired the wrong way?¿
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| Krytox |
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Low EL wrote: Its cause of the cluster. You need to add the resistor into the cluster to make the lights work. Its mentioned somewhere in the install docco.
Trip comp, not cluster. Unless he's changed the cluster also.
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| robsea80 |
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looked at the docco agian i folowed it but same problum. whats the resister and i did change the cluster from falcon to fairmont one.
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| Krytox |
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robsea80 wrote: looked at the docco agian i folowed it but same problum. whats the resister and i did change the cluster from falcon to fairmont one.
Then Low El is on the money then, WHen fitting a Fairmont Cluster to a GLi/Futura or XR you need to solder in a resistor in the cluster. It allows the LCD to illuminate/dim. Without it the cluster expects the BEM to control the lumosity with the variable feature in fairmonts, However with lower spec cars, this is done via the cluster. Please read the doco on changing instruments. http://fordmods.com/forums/documents.php?doc=14 You are required to solder a 1watt 47ohm resistor. costs all of 10 cents and take around 10 mins to discect the cluster and solder.
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| kyleat1 |
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see if the dimester light is blown on the dash thats what i found when i did mine ,and i followed the doco aswell
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| kyleat1 |
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sorry i ment the demester switch light that turns the thing on
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