Dimmer malfunction

Johnomx3 · Post by **Johnomx3** » January 11th, 2005, 11:36 am

Anyways i searched around couldnt find much (didnt have too much time to search though. If my dimmer isnt turned all the way on, the lights will flicker, i assume somethings loose as if seems to fluxuate when i hit bumps and whatnot. Anyways if anyones had this problem and fixed it email me please @ johno_brownrigg@hotmail.com

Thanks

Grants · Post by **Grants** » January 11th, 2005, 10:26 pm

If it works ok with full power, sounds like a faulty dimmer....

masonholmes · Post by **masonholmes** » January 12th, 2005, 2:44 am

Yep, sounds like a faulty dimmer. I seem to have a different problem with the dimmer... My original worked fine but the ears that keep it clipped in the dash broke - so I got another one off Ebay. A few weeks after putting it in, the same thing happened - the bottom ear snapped off and the top ear is cracked and ready to fall off as well. No idea why, heh.

Chiggles · Post by **Chiggles** » January 12th, 2005, 5:54 am

My switch seems to work intermittently. My panel stays lit up full all the time, so I rarely play with the switch unless my eyes are getting tired from a long highway drive at night. Anyway, sometimes when I roll the switch, it'll do what it's suppose to do and dim the guages, sometimes it won't, and there's no discernable pattern to it at all. Where's the fault???

Grants · Post by **Grants** » January 12th, 2005, 6:38 am

You seem to have answered that yourself, the dimmer seems to have an intermittant fault. Replace it.

PlatinumTLC · Post by **PlatinumTLC** » January 12th, 2005, 10:06 pm

my dimmer doesn't do anything when i roll the switch.

Chiggles · Post by **Chiggles** » January 13th, 2005, 1:34 am

Grants wrote:You seem to have answered that yourself, the dimmer seems to have an intermittant fault. Replace it.

No, no, what I mean is, WHERE is the fault??? I don't know if it's a loose wire, a faulty switch, etc. The reason I'm asking is cuz I want to change my guage faces in the spring and from the other threads here, it seems like I need to splice into the wiring behind the switch here so before I go get the faces and have that new switch installed, I need to know if it's a problem with the existing wiring, or if it's just the dimmer switch itself.

Grants · Post by **Grants** » January 13th, 2005, 1:45 am

Ah, sorry

The fault is amost certainly in the dimmer switch itself by your description. With the new gauge faces I suppose the dimmer working will be even more important - maybe you can pick one up at the motor wreckers - should be pretty cheap and its easy to replace.