Could my ignition switch have gotten fried?

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:29 PM Thomas Casal <thomas.casal@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks guys,
>
> I thought of the switch being roached so I used my spare switch that is
> known good. It’s really crazy I simply replaced the two blue grey wires
> just the way they were. The wire that melted was daisy chained to the other
> blue grey wire to the female connector that goes to the heater lights. I
> replaced the white male female connector with a current male female. The
> wire from the switch to the instrument cluster was collateral damage.
> Didn’t change a thing except the inline fuse. If the short was still there
> wouldn’t the fuse blow? Just don’t know how I could have wired into
> constant power. I just replaced the two wires. No fuses are popping and no
> wires are melting luckily. A couple wires were ever so slightly damaged so
> I electrical taped them just in case.
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:22 PM Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Eighter you connected to the wrong terminal, of your bridges to power
>> elsewhere, or most likely the short toasted the headlight switch.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> On Behalf Of
>> Thomas Casal
>> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 9:48 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Instrument cluster light issues
>>
>> No key in the ignition either.
>>
>> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 9:02 PM Thomas Casal <thomas.casal@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hey everybody,
>> >
>> > The blue grey wire going from the light switch instrument cluster
>> > adjuster to the blue grey wire that connects near the rear defroster
>> > switch and the heater adjuster lights shorted out on me and melted
>> > damaging the blue grey wire going to the instrument cluster as well. A
>> mouse ate it on me.
>> >
>> > So I finally got the 2.8mm open barrel connector to fix it so I wire
>> > everything up and put an inline fuse near the switch 1.5 amp to
>> > protect it so it doesn’t happen again. So now when I hook the ground
>> > up on the battery bang the instrument cluster lights and hater panel
>> > lights go on and won’t go off no matter what I do with the switch they
>> are on. Wtf did I do?
>> >
>>
>