> See, I'm not sure it shows up with just a VOM reading. It has to be > under current load. But, the difference was startling with my > Corrado. I didn't know the difference until I did it. As a matter of > fact, I SCOFFED, yes scoffed at a friend of mine who suggested to me > it years ago. there are a number of ways you can see the difference. I found that just cutting the switches out of the current path by jumping a wire from terminal 30 to the M2 slotted changed things quite a bit. You could also pull the bulb and shove the multimeter prongs into the hot wire connection iirc - I don't think the 9004 connector was totally sealed - and measure voltage to ground. dave |
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