Electroluminescent Dashboard Gremlins

[Stephen Birtles]

you don't have to use a certain or specific cleaner on molex connectors
if the pins are clean by all means use silicone as well as being an insulator it
acts as a non-hardening sealant to stop air infiltration
the cause of the corrosion



--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, GARY MINKER wrote:
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> 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.
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> From: Kurt Horvath
> Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Electroluminescent Dashboard Gremlins
> To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 3:58 PM
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It's a bit temperamental, it's no wonder some of the pins were very corroded,
with a light white powdery coating.
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intermittently, Gremlins!
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go out. I have replaced the inverters, the dimmer functions correctly, headlight
switch functions correctly
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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.
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an open slot in a bus bar with a 5 amp fuse. This worked Great!!! The EL fired
up and were home free.
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> > 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..
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