Electroluminescent Dashboard Gremlins

[GARY MINKER]

YOW, silicon grease is very bad. You must use the Caig Labs cramolin cleaner on molex pins. I have not found anything that works besides mechanical abrasion and this stuff. The silicon grease is an insulator and will louse up your metering and low current connections. You can have several big connectors in a line to go from here to there. You have to get to them all. My door bell keeps quitting because of one. --- On Sat, 7/25/09, Kurt Horvath wrote: From: Kurt Horvath Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Electroluminescent Dashboard Gremlins To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 3:58 PM Gary, I just unplugged and cleaned all the plugs and applied dielectric grease to all the pins. I did not help the EL lights, but it did get the high idle to function better, It's a bit temperamental, it's no wonder some of the pins were very corroded, with a light white powdery coating. So it may help in other areas as well, you know how some things work intermittently, Gremlins! Kurt Horvath 95 PT 42 10AC --- In WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com, GARY MINKER wrote: > > You could be a victim of a large Molex plug failure. > Caig Labs makes a good pin protectant > re seat all the front area Molex connectors > > --- On Sun, 7/19/09, Kurt Horvath wrote: > > From: Kurt Horvath > Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Electroluminescent Dashboard Gremlins > To: WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com > Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 5:40 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > Electroluminescent Dashboard Gremlins > > > > I've been working on this one for a while. > > > > Here' an update.EL went back in April. > > > > They would light briefly when the headlight were turned on, but would then go out. I have replaced the inverters, the dimmer functions correctly, headlight switch functions correctly > > > > I had no power to the dimmer and after searching the blueprint several times I don't have the correct print that shows anything in the EL/Generator Bay. If anyone has that Blueprint or a blueprint of the wiring for the dashboard please post it or e-mail it to me. > > > > Power problem was solved by George Morris @ Bleakley's suggestion wire it to an open slot in a bus bar with a 5 amp fuse. This worked Great!!! The EL fired up and were home free. > > > > That great success was short lived. The EL`s out again. The dimmer is powered, the fuse did not blow, the dimmer functions correctly, good ground, one inverter has power the other does not.. > > > > Any idea on where to go from here? > > > > Kurt Horvath > > 95 PT 42 > > 10AC >