Thanks guys,

I thought of the switch being roached so I used my spare switch that is
known good. It’s really crazy I simply replaced the two blue grey wires
just the way they were. The wire that melted was daisy chained to the other
blue grey wire to the female connector that goes to the heater lights. I
replaced the white male female connector with a current male female. The
wire from the switch to the instrument cluster was collateral damage.
Didn’t change a thing except the inline fuse. If the short was still there
wouldn’t the fuse blow? Just don’t know how I could have wired into
constant power. I just replaced the two wires. No fuses are popping and no
wires are melting luckily. A couple wires were ever so slightly damaged so
I electrical taped them just in case.

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:22 PM Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Eighter you connected to the wrong terminal, of your bridges to power
> elsewhere, or most likely the short toasted the headlight switch.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> On Behalf Of
> Thomas Casal
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 9:48 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Instrument cluster light issues
>
> No key in the ignition either.
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 9:02 PM Thomas Casal <thomas.casal@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey everybody,
> >
> > The blue grey wire going from the light switch instrument cluster
> > adjuster to the blue grey wire that connects near the rear defroster
> > switch and the heater adjuster lights shorted out on me and melted
> > damaging the blue grey wire going to the instrument cluster as well. A
> mouse ate it on me.
> >
> > So I finally got the 2.8mm open barrel connector to fix it so I wire
> > everything up and put an inline fuse near the switch 1.5 amp to
> > protect it so it doesn’t happen again. So now when I hook the ground
> > up on the battery bang the instrument cluster lights and hater panel
> > lights go on and won’t go off no matter what I do with the switch they
> are on. Wtf did I do?
> >
>