Daughter came home and said there were no dash panel lights on her 97 Monte.
I have checked that headlights work, tail/parking lights work, radio HAS dimming, light inside Dimmer switch IS dimming with **** rotation, overhead light comes on @ end of dimmer rotation as it should....

pulled the instrument panel, and the lights work in the panel (when powered externally).

I guess I am down to tracing wire from panel to dimmer switch (didn't find any that have 0 ohms) or to finding the pinout of the 'dimming' side of the connector - and confirm if it is dimmer is bad, or if wiring is bad.

I would really appreciate if someone could help me with which wire from the dimmer switch goes to the instrument panel?? (and is this supposed to be a DC signal, or a PWM signal??)

(nothing looks or smells burned/shorted in the dimmer assembly - there are 3 large transistors, but not knowing what is really supposed to be happening there, I did not dive too far into checking these - if someone has a good trouble shooting method, I would welcome this info also)

thanks for the help

 

it has its own fuse in the side dash check it i blew my radio fuse lighter fuse and powerdrop fuse easy simple fix open the panel and all fuses are diagramed sorry you when so far and didnt check there first

 

thanks for the thought - - I should have mentioned that - I checked all of the fuses on the right passenger panel before I started doing the other items - all checked good. I looked at the labels of fuses under the hood, but none seemed to relate to this.

(and since it was such a good suggestion, I just went an re-checked it - - darn - still good. (yeah, I was hoping!!) )