Wedge yourself under the steering wheel, drop the fuse box, and clean up
those ground-crowns where all the dash wiring comes together... you have a
12V circuit that is losing 6 volts to corroded contacts.

Also possible it's the connectors at the light itself, but those are way
too easy to get at.. Murphy says the corrosion is down where it's cramped!

Tim

At 07:34 PM 6/22/2006 -0500, Aaron Pearson wrote:
>i thought i was all clever, and bought these for my interior overhead light:
>
>http://www.superbrightleds.com/festoon.html
>
>the "39 x 10 mm Festoon base with 6 LEDs" fit perfectly, but require 12v,
>not the 6v that is found across the clips in the lamp.  oops.  why is it 6?
>is there 12 going into it, which is converted to 6 for some reason?  can i
>rewire it to 12?
>
>thanks.
>
>aaron
>'87 syncro westy ej22
>
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