Re: IML: Push button light source
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Re: IML: Push button light source



!960 is different from the '61 through '63 in this area. The 1960 model uses bulbs to light the buttons. The 1961 through 1963 do not use bulbs. They use an electroluminescent panel, just like the rest of the dash lighting, powered by the transformer mounted under the dash on the inside of the firewall.

Paul W.


-----Original Message-----
From: Luke Nola <luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 9:29 am
Subject: Re: IML: Push button light source


Mark, I'm just wiring up the same thing on my 60. The heater button unit is not electroluminescent. It's a regular 12v bulb. I can send you a pic off list. But the weird thing is I have the same question about the gear select unit. My unit has never had a bulb or any sign of a mount for a bulb. MInes all apart at the moment sans gauges so I'll send you some pics and maybe we can both have our problems solved. Maybe do a bulk buy from Lowell or something?



Luke 

1960 Le Baron in NZ


On 28/02/2008, at 7:13 PM, Mark Battesby wrote:


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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