Jet dimmer switch

[Deleted User]
[Deleted User]
edited November -1 in HUDSON
Does anybody know what dimmer switch will replace the one in my Jet? I was driving home Friday night and my headlights went out three times. Just for a few secounds. I checked all of the connections, and everything seemed ok. I don't think it is the head light switch because when the lights went out the dash lights stayed on. I had a 64' ford do this once and it was the dimmer switch.



Thanks, Barry Smedley:eek:

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  • dave s
    dave s Senior Contributor, Moderator
    NAPA Echlin DS102
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I had been using the dimmer quite a bit, but I wasn't using it when they went out Also you might make note, I called NAPA about #ds102. It is now ds133 $25.00. Where is the relay? Under the dash??



    Thanks, Barry Smedley
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    There is no factory fitted relay, they are usually fitted after-market to provide full battery voltage to the headlamps. I suggest you check all the connections first, before replacing the switch. Check that the screws are tight on the back of the dash switch, the foot switch, and the terminal blocks either side of the radiator. Incidentally, what a strange hang-over from the twenties, calling it a "Dimmer switch". We call it a Dip switch, which is much more logical, as the beam dips from high to low. The term "Dimmer switch" harks back to when headlamps had only one filament, and a resistance was switched into the circuit to make the bulb glow dimmer. Just a bit of trivia!

    Geoff.
  • MikeWA
    MikeWA Senior Contributor
    We've always called them dimmer switches on this side of the pond, and since that name has endured for the 40 or so years that they've been gone, I think it's too late to change. DIP switches, on the other hand, are the little bank of numbered switches on printers and other peripheral components of computers in the "early days" before "Plug and Play", when you had to "configure" the added components to make them work with your particular computer. Instructions said, "for the Whiz-Bang 2000 model XL-2, switch should be off-off-on-off-on-off-off". Since the instructions were invariably written by the only Singapore native in the factory who spoke Portugese, they usually lost a little in the translation, with dubious results. Don't miss those days at all.
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