How is map light post to work?

[hoop]

Douse the map light post to only work with a door open?.... because it don't work with doors closed with switch up or down! I do have it hooked up wrong, I got the red wire hooked to the lighter & pink wire tap in to the red because someone has cut the plug off the pink that post to hook in the lighter, I did test hooking it up right with jumper wires, Map light steel douse the same!

Also with the doors open for a little bit the round key light time delay gets worm, is that normal?
Also my dome light gets about too hot to touch when you leave doors open a little bit, is that normal?...but its been like that for years before I even hooked my map light & glove box light back up.

 

[1969383S]

The map light switch just grounds one side of the lamp. In the opposite direction it allows the door switch ground circuit to pass through. Maybe the map light switch housing is not grounded well to the dash frame. The ignition time delay relay is a thermal device so it will get hotter the longer the door is left open. The dome lamp wiil get hotter the longer it stays on as well.

 

[RedFish]

map light should also work when the headlights are on.
Dome lamp bulbs get finger blistering hot.
The old school time delays get warm too since it is a thermal switch and not a modern solid state timer.

 

[hoop]

The map light switch just grounds one side of the lamp. In the opposite direction it allows the door switch ground circuit to pass through. Maybe the map light switch housing is not grounded well to the dash frame. The ignition time delay relay is a thermal device so it will get hotter the longer the door is left open. The dome lamp wiil get hotter the longer it stays on as well.

So map light should work when door is closed?.. put it wear it post to be, same thing, then let it hang down with ground jumper wire clamped on nut touching switch & clamping deff. places on dash, steel douse the same!... Someone before told me it might be back feeding with the red wire hooked up to lighter & pink sliced in, but like I said, I tried it the right way, with red wire on plug that has pink going both ways & the end of pink wire that was cut off, I used a clamp jumper wire & put on tip of lighter plug, steel nothing with doors closed, with switch up or down!
I have also made my on bracket & screwed in to the dash & made a hoe for the switch using the nut on it to hold it in place, steel douse the same!

 

[1969383S]

You did not tell us what year and model you are working on. Which is always important.

Attached is a wiring doc for the accessory lamps for a 69 Barracuda that may get you on the right track.

Notice the Pink (Hot) originates from the red 16 lighter feed. In one posistion the Brown wire on the map switch shorts to the case or ground if you like, (one in the same when the switch is mounted in the dash frame). This allows for manual operation of the lamp when the doors are closed. The other posistion just connects the yellow feed from the (door switch's) directly to the brown and on to one side of the bulb. This allows the lamp to light when either door is opened. Pink on the other side of the bulb is always hot.

Do you have the correct bulb installed?

 

[abodyjoe]

there should be a switch that turns ne map light on with the doors closed. my 71 had it under the dash to the left for the steering wheel..

 

[hoop]

You did not tell us what year and model you are working on. Which is always important.

Attached is a wiring doc for the accessory lamps for a 69 Barracuda that may get you on the right track.

Notice the Pink (Hot) originates from the red 16 lighter feed. In one posistion the Brown wire on the map switch shorts to the case or ground if you like, (one in the same when the switch is mounted in the dash frame). This allows for manual operation of the lamp when the doors are closed. The other posistion just connects the yellow feed from the (door switch's) directly to the brown and on to one side of the bulb. This allows the lamp to light when either door is opened. Pink on the other side of the bulb is always hot.

Do you have the correct bulb installed?

O yell, my bad! 72 Dodge Dart

 

[hoop]

I might need to take a look at the brown wire, someone cut the switch plug in off & I had to get one from a parts car!