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new instrument panel light appears (archive)
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Posted by mike wong on November 11, 2001 at 19:00:06:

Took apart the fuse box on the 733, cleaned and sprayed all contact points and relay spades. Aafter connecting the battery, I noticed a new blue-green light, light up on the instrument panel. It's on the far left side of the panel (two spaces to the left of the blue, high beam indicator).

I checked the manual for an interpretation. The manual acknowledges the icon, but has no description for what the symbol light means. The icon is very similar to the symbol
for the front fog light; but the symbol for the fog light has a squiggly vertical line crossed with three straight parallel lines (all perpendicular to the vertical squiggly
line). This symbol is similar, but instead of the three parallel lines crossing 'perpendicularly'; they cross at an angle (going up from left to right) [similiar to a keyboard 'forward slash' key / ].

This blue/green light stays on, whether the ignition is on or off.
Next, I looked at the fusebox, directly in the middle of the box there are three places: two are for fog lights [8A] (which I don't have), and the third is for a supplemental fan [25A]. Because there are no fog lights, the first two connectors are left empty. But I recall having a fuse in the connector earmarked 'supplemental fan'. When I removed that fuse, the blue/green light light turned off. However, I've always had a fuse in ther previously.
Can anyone tell me what happened and what the supplemental fan fuse is used for? If the supplemental fan is actually the fan for the a/c condenser, I definitely would not remove the fuse (but then have to deal with the light). Note: the a/c fan is not operational at the moment - will need to check resistors & temp switches, later.

Today's procedure DID solve the "Power Outage" problem that I posted a couple weeks ago - that talked about the sudden lost of power to the OBC, radio, & cruise control. :)

thanks - sorry for the long post,




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