Re: Pulling Fuse #12

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxx>]

Actually pulling fuse #12 is my preferred method of disabling courtesy
& door lights whenever doors will be open for more than a couple of
minutes. Of course dash indicator doesn't illuminate. Didn't do it for
other owners at Mid Atlantic, or anyone at MD tech sessions either.

Dash indicator can't illuminate without juice from somewhere...

Since hood and engine compartment lights aren't diode isolated
(electricity itself is diode backwards through door lights) your
theory is correct, provided one of them is open and car is energized.
But Patrick explicitly stated indicator was responding to lever light:

Lever lights ARE isolated from indicator by a diode. Even if they
weren't, would be physically impossible to ground indicator through
their individual grounds when flipped in other direction (could ground
through open glove box). Only other ground on that side, in stock
configuration, is delay module. 

Door lights on other side of diode use same plunger grounds designers
intended indicator to share.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jan van de Wouw <delorean@xxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:22:29 EST, Patrick wrote:
> 
> This last line IS your problem... Without juice coming
> from the #12 fuse the Door Ajar-light grounds through
> any of the lights on this circuit; engine, trunk,
> glovebox and both interior lights...
> 
> This is actually NORMAL and also occurs when you
> have a switch in line with #12 for use at shows,
> I know from experience.
> 
> Put an new 10A fuse in the #12 slot and it's fixed!
> Why is it out anyway?
> 
> JAN van de Wouw
> 
> Thinking Different... Using a Mac...
> Living the Dream... Driving a DeLorean...
> 
> #05141 "Dagger" since Sept. 2000
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