For some reason I always get a kick out of the idea of dim able
instrument lights on a TR3 (or at least MY TR3). On my car the
range of the rheostat would have be something like "Barely
Visible" to "Not Visible At All".
Drew
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:05:44 -0800
> From: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
> Subject: RE: Tr3a dash switch order
>
> > the vertical order is different for different years, earlier
> > cars had a
> > switch for the panel lights in the topmost position. The later cars had a
> > rheostat for the panel lights, in the center position.
>
> According to Bill Piggott, some cars had the rheostat as early as TS43000
> (Feb 59), but it didn't become standard until TS60001 (Oct 59). The
> instrument panel is also different on cars with the rheostat, as the
> rheostat takes a larger hole than the wiper and dash light switches do.
>
> Randall
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Drew Rogge
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