Re: IML: Push button light source

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

Service manual indicates that the lighting is
electroluminescent by way of the lower case "b" on the
page below.  Such an arrangement would require that
the wire you see plug into something.  You can gently
undo the ignition key bezel and remove the faceplate
that's in there and wired for reference.

Don't break that one too - you have been warned.

http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1963/FSM/Group08/Page07.htm




--- Mark Battesby <a1web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I examined the push button device up and down top to
> bottom. There is not a spot that the white wire
> would plug in like it does at all the other areas on
> the dash. Is it not obvious . The wires are dangling
> there but nowhere to plug into anything i just don't
> get it. does it just need to make a connection to
> any part of metal to send current into the clear
> like buttons
> 
> PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx> wrote:   1960 was
> the final year for the push buttons being lit by a
> light bulb.
> 
> Beginning in 1961 and through 1963, both banks of
> buttons are lit by 
> the large electroluminescent panel mounted along
> side of the buttons. 
> It is within the cavity in the dash containing the
> buttons. The clear 
> button "arms" transmit the light to the letters, as
> it does in the 
> earlier models where the light bulb is used.
> 
> This method was used in addition to the felt padding
> to eliminate the 
> chance of a distracting outline of light showing
> around the buttons 
> that would brighter than the lighting through the
> faces.
> 
> Paul W.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Battesby 
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:23 am
> Subject: Re: IML: Push button light source
> 
> 
> really there is a round hole in the plale below the
> buttons what type 
> of bulb and which wire do i jump to
> 
> Kenyon Wills wrote:
> 
> --- Mark Battesby wrote:
> 
> For the life of
> > me I just don't see how a light source attaches to
> > those clear push buttons
> 
> 
> ????
> 
> The light source is a lightbulb behind the buttons
> and
> it is not attached. The clear lucite in the buttons
> is transmissive, sorta like fiber optic cable (but
> not) where shining a light on one side allows the
> light to pass through and be visible on the other
> side.
> 
> -Kenyon
> 
> 
>
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