Re: IML: Push button light source

[PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx>]

I think I hear exactly what you are saying. You first wanted to know 
what made them light up, then you wanted to know where the connection 
was. That information was in my note yesterday and is being repeated 
here for you to review.

It is a flat panel that is mounted in the pod along side of the push 
buttons. If its missing, check the buttons for your transmission. If 
they light up, then you can look there to see what it looks like and 
where the connection is. Both sides are the same. The panel is held in 
place with two screws through little brackets built into the panel. Due 
to a family emergency, I will not be able to dig one out and scan it 
into my computer for you to see.

There is a white wire with a red connector attached to the panel. That 
plugs into another white wire and red connector that leads to that area 
or vicinity from behind the dash.

I don't know what else to say other than if yours has been removed, 
than maybe that is why you can't see it. In all the cars that I have 
worked on, the panel has been there, but only sometimes disconnected if 
it has shorted out. The system will not function is one lamp is 
shorted, so frequently a lamp has been disconnected to allow the rest 
of the system to function. Maybe the wire broke off of yours and that 
is why can't see how to connect it.

I hope this helps.

Paul W.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Battesby <a1web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:13 pm
Subject: Re: IML: Push button light source


Thank you but for some unknown reason nobody is hearing what I am 
saying. I am fully aware of what makes my lights work . I have had to 
replace the electroluminescent unit already a few years back . I know 
the color of the wire and I know what to look for to plug it in. What 
Im telling everyone is where. I dont see anything on the entire heater 
push button unit that the electroluminescent  white wire pluggs into. 
So please tell me how is yours wired where does it plugg in the top the 
bottom the side where ? that what I need to know

Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 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 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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