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Climate control panel and light switch lighting dead

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Old Sep 15th, 2018, 14:53   #1
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Hi all, I thought I'd have a crack at changing the bulbs in my ac panel above the stereo and also the ones in the headlight switch panel as hardly anything works, so imagine my surprise after fitting new bulbs and it's exactly the same, the light switch side is completely dead, no light at all from any of the 3 bulbs and on testing with a multi meter I have 0v on all three, so that is dead, although it's just the backlighting circuit, the headlight themselves and fogs etc all work as normal.

Then into the ac panel, the left hand bulb lights up fine, the middle one is dead and reads 0v, and the right one comes on dimly, with readings that fluctuate between 3.5 and 5 volts, whatever could be going on here?

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After some precision Emery papering I've got the right side of the dash panel lighting correctly and showing ~12v, the centre bulb holder and the 3 in the light switch are all still completely dead.
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Update 2.

Turns out that you need all three bulbs fitted for the circuitry to actually work, the system must be wired in series or something, all working, not particularly bright though so hunting for plug and play LED items, still no luck with the headlight panel though, I may well just fit LEDs here and then spur off some wiring back there to give me my ignition live.
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Update 2.

Turns out that you need all three bulbs fitted for the circuitry to actually work, the system must be wired in series or something, all working, not particularly bright though so hunting for plug and play LED items, still no luck with the headlight panel though, I may well just fit LEDs here and then spur off some wiring back there to give me my ignition live.
Great. thanks for the follow up and let us know what was the issue. Always good to hear the end of a story.
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