Re: IML: Push button light source

[PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx>]

!960 is different from the '61 through '63 in this area. The 1960 model 
uses bulbs to light the buttons. The 1961 through 1963 do not use 
bulbs. They use an electroluminescent panel, just like the rest of the 
dash lighting, powered by the transformer mounted under the dash on the 
inside of the firewall.

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 source


Mark, 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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