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- From: bae@hplsdll.col.hp.com (Bruce Erickson)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Left turn light acting verrry strange -- help!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.141409.2580@col.hp.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 15:12:56 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.194547.16242@col.hp.com>
- Sender: bnr@hplsdll.col.hp.com
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Logic Systems Operation
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- My thanks to 'wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu' who sent me this mail
- message (and my reply, for those who were curious):
-
- > Only *ONE* possible cause - bad grounds.
- > Anything weird such as this caused by the ground at one of the lights
- > being bad. So when you send +13 vdc to a light, instead of the other
- > side of the lamp being at 0vdc, it 'floats' and then passes voltage
- > back to the other filament.
- >
- > Oh,, there is SLIGHT chance that a dual filament lamp has the
- > two touching somehow, but I doubt it.
-
- .and that is EXACTLY what the problem was! I replaced the parking/turn
- light (a two filament bulb) when I saw the two filaments were touching,
- and my problems were fixed!
-
- > --
- > A host is a host from coast to coast..wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
- > & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
- > Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
- > is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
-
- Bruce Erickson
-