Hi all. Pretty sure I managed to blow the tiny fuse (?) that’s in the glovebox light. Does anyone know what they’re called and if somewhere like Halfords would sell them?

 

symptoms: tiny puff of smoke and now bulb isnt working. 

 

Little black and grey thing on the right of the attached:

Edited 2 April, 20188 yr by uchuff

That's a resistor I think...

 

Will need soldered replacement 

That's a diode. There might be a number on it to help find a replacement.

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That's a diode, probably 1N4007, you can buy it cheap.

Looks like your LED bulb is shorting out the contacts? I can see a metal ring on it.

2 hours ago, aki78 said:

+1

That's a diode, probably 1N4007, you can buy it cheap.

Looks like your LED bulb is shorting out the contacts? I can see a metal ring on it.

 

Thanks, will have another look and see if there are any other markings. Only one I saw was a big “3”. 

Unplug the lead from the housing, get a normal bulb & plug it in, then re-plug the lead back to the housing & see if that works?

4 hours ago, aki78 said:

Looks like your LED bulb is shorting out the contacts? I can see a metal ring on it.

 

It does a bit but the silver ring is behind the lense. Not easy to see from the potato pic. 

So it turns out I’m a ****** idiot. I’d actually managed to put the bulb in the wrong way round. Removal, 90 degree rotation and reinsertion was all it took to get output. In my defense I was rushing to get it all done before we went out for lunch. 

 

I now have nice Osram LEDs in all the interior lights. IMHO how it should have left the factory. 

 

Thanks for the input anyway all.