<VV> Dash Lights

[Jim Burkhard]

Bob -
Hmmmmmmmm.... I'll have to look at the shop manual, but on my 65 
Corsa, I *know* that when the IP lights are out, the fuse has blown 
and I've got no taillights as well.  I've had an intermittant problem 
with that circuit for years such that occasionally it blows -- I'm 
always careful to watch the panel lights becuase they serve as such a 
good telltale that I've no taillights either.  Once the fuse is 
replaced (a 10A one, if I recall, but don't hold me to that), both 
resume working cheerfully (until next time).

Jim Burkhard

BobHelt at aol.com wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 2/3/2007 11:48:58 AM US Mountain Standard Time,  
> vairologist at verizon.net writes:
> 
> Smitty says:   I think he meant tail lights Bob.  GMs have had  the same fuse 
> fot dash and tail for about a hundred years, more or  less,
> 
> 
> 
> A hundred years, HUH?.......up to the Corvair, that is. 
>  
> If you will take a look at the example fuse panel in the 1965 Shop Manual,  
> page 12-2 ( or '61 SM, page 8-47) , you will note that there is a separate fuse 
>  marked Panel Lps. That fuse is for the dash lights. It may be in series with 
> the  "tail and stop" fuse, but by being there it puts the panel lights on a 
> separate  circuit.
>  
> What that means is, that the panel lights fuse could be blown and the dash  
> lights will not light, But  the tail lights will still work.
>  
> Regards,
> Bob Helt