Flickering instrument lights

[admiral]

The subject says it all.

My instrument lights flicker. Just a little, but it's noticeable. They've just started doing it. The headlights don't.

What's the cause? Any ideas anyone?

[gcpeters]

wrong type of candles perhaps??

on another note does everyones rev counter glow brighther then the other dials??

[c3ber]

On another note: Can you make the instrument lights brighter. I would check myself but not back to the UK until the 30th November.

[Rob Dance]

Mine are too bright... annoingly so when peering through the gloom of a wet night !

Flickering could be a duff connection to the dash lamps, or a poor earth. First check would be to pop the dash cover panel and check the supply leads.

I understand the panel comes off after removing a pair of butterfly nuts from it`s underside.

[TOPHAT]

Not to come across all doom and gloom but when mine did that the alternator proved to be going. Another symptom was the headlights were marginally brighter at higher revs.

[admiral]

Thanks for the replies chaps.

I'll study the headlight brightness at idle and compare to that when revved.

It's due in for a service in a few hundred miles, so hopefully if it is the alternator, it will last until then.

[davetherave1970]

I've had a brand new alt on mine and the lights still get brighter when reved.
I thought it was normal as the volts at idle will be lower that at say 2k!

[TOPHAT]

Quick reply from the technoboob - with the old S2 there was a definite correlation between revs and electrics. Once the alternator had been swapped on the cerbera I got constant beams.
Could be miles off, of course - just personal observations

[admiral]

Just for the record - I had the alternator replaced and all is fine now.

The flickering had been getting steadily worse so I suspect if nothing had been done the alternator would have finally given up the ghost.

[Toady1]

gcpeters said:

on another note does everyones rev counter glow brighther then the other dials??

thats cos it has 2 bulbs in it and the rest only have one each! i would have thought the speedo would have had 2, but it doesnt!

[tophat]

Hey Hey! Thanks for the post back.