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 sourceMark, 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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