At 10:04 AM 1/28/2000 -0500, Jose R. Moscoso wrote:
>and kept a watch on it.  Everything seem to be working fine but to my
>surprise when I turned on the front lights the clock stopped.
>My question to you electronic-wise men (and/or woman if there is any in the
>list) is there a relation?, can this be fixed in any way? should I keep on

Sounds remarkably like a ground problem.  Without tracing the circuit,
sounds as though your clock is somehow getting its ground through the
headlights, so when you turn them on the ground goes away.  Wouldn't
surprise me if you had some other stuff behaving oddly too.  Like for
example your panel lights don't work.  They have the same ground as the
clock, should be pin 5 on the panel connector going to a 20-ga brown wire
to ground connector 10 behind the dash.

Turn your lights on and follow the ground path from the ground connector,
looking for 12v.  If you find it then you just passed the problem point.

david
David Beierl - Providence, RI
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