[rescue] LCD monitor diagnosis

[Peter Corlett]

Wesley Will <wwill at siu.edu> wrote:
[...]
> But maybe you haven't yet realized that the missing resistor actually is a
> good thing. When one bulb fails, the resistance is lowered and the flash
> time is shortened by about half. In other words, if the blinker interval
> goes from once per second or so to twice per second, change the bulb that
> blew. You have to flip it on and then check front and rear, but it tells
> you that one of the two is toast.

Well, *usually* it'll fail safe.

And sometimes it'll blow some obscure component on a board buried behind the
engine and cost a fortune to replace.

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