shawnshumvee
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Was planning on swapping out my custom Ignition light from a Red to a green one (because it would have just look better) and that's when my issue happened. Last January i installed my own custom keyed kill switch as an alternative to the keyed ignition switches sold on eBay and elsewhere, as those type were not appealing to me for a few reasons, nevertheless, the idea worked perfect never had an issue. The way that it was designed is, if you would turn the key a red light would light up indicating that the humvee is activated (in other words.. completing the electrical circuit) and then you would continue to start the humvee as you would normally. The keyed kill switch was basically killing the voltage to the start switch. Once the key was inserted and turned this would complete the circuit thus allowing the Humvee to be started in the normal fashion and i added a light to the whole project and it was working great, but at the time i installed the custom switch i only had red lights in my shop so i used one. well every light on my dash cluster is green so it bugged me and i wanted to swap out the red light for a green one so i bought one and went to go pull the red light out and when i did i guess one of the metal connectors on the back came off and started arking and some smoke came out from behind the dash and now the whole truck is dead. It's like there isn't any batteries in it, nothing is working NOTHING! i don't even see any melted wires or anything. like a dummy i thought i could just swap the lights, kind of like a plug and play method boy was i wrong, i should have just unhooked the batteries like i normal wound have done. is there any in-line fuses? Any help would be SOOOOOO greatfull!
Was planning on swapping out my custom Ignition light from a Red to a green one (because it would have just look better) and that's when my issue happened. Last January i installed my own custom keyed kill switch as an alternative to the keyed ignition switches sold on eBay and elsewhere, as those type were not appealing to me for a few reasons, nevertheless, the idea worked perfect never had an issue. The way that it was designed is, if you would turn the key a red light would light up indicating that the humvee is activated (in other words.. completing the electrical circuit) and then you would continue to start the humvee as you would normally. The keyed kill switch was basically killing the voltage to the start switch. Once the key was inserted and turned this would complete the circuit thus allowing the Humvee to be started in the normal fashion and i added a light to the whole project and it was working great, but at the time i installed the custom switch i only had red lights in my shop so i used one. well every light on my dash cluster is green so it bugged me and i wanted to swap out the red light for a green one so i bought one and went to go pull the red light out and when i did i guess one of the metal connectors on the back came off and started arking and some smoke came out from behind the dash and now the whole truck is dead. It's like there isn't any batteries in it, nothing is working NOTHING! i don't even see any melted wires or anything. like a dummy i thought i could just swap the lights, kind of like a plug and play method boy was i wrong, i should have just unhooked the batteries like i normal wound have done. is there any in-line fuses? Any help would be SOOOOOO greatfull!
