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Car Forum / Nissan / Nissan Cars / April 2005panel light dimmer resistence for 94 Altima
Anyone know what the resistance of the dimmer pot should be? How many watts? I need to replace it or maybe just put in a fixed resistor at about half brightness setting Thanks Dont do fixed resistor, too bright distractions will cause a mortal accident, death. So measure your old POT, with multimeter. > Dont do fixed resistor, too bright distractions will cause a mortal > accident, death. > > So measure your old POT, with multimeter. It's not a pot, it's a rheostat. If you plan to replace it with a resister, it will need to be a high wattage wirewound one. Could get really hot and start a fire. Better off to just replace the dimmer. OK thanks I think I will get a new dimmer. I can reach under the dash and pull the 2 wires going to the dimmer and make it work for a while so I thought I could just cut them 2 and connect them together or put in a dropping or current limiting resister. Why would I think along these lines? Because it seems to be hard to get the dimmer switch out, but I bet I'm wrong there too. Anyone tell me how to make it easy ? TIA >> Dont do fixed resistor, too bright distractions will cause a mortal >> accident, death. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >resister, it will need to be a high wattage wirewound one. Could get >really hot and start a fire. Better off to just replace the dimmer. Get one from a junkyard. Most Late model Nissans use a small DC amplifier for the dimmer. It runs at ~3-7 watts, so any rheostat would get pretty hot and probably cost more too. > Anyone know what the resistance of the dimmer pot should be? How many > watts? I need to replace it or maybe just put in a fixed resistor at > about half brightness setting > > Thanks |
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