As per title, noticed a nasty melting plastic smell, and smoke rising from behind my dial housing. undid the screws and lifted off the dials top cover to find my EL inverter sitting there smoking away like a trooper. as it was way to hot to handle i had to let it cool down. its now removed from the car, but it now means my dials no longer light up.

 

Now the EL dials had been playing up recently, not dimming or anything and only being "on" but not very bright. shall i just put this down to it wearing out and just get another or could there be something more sinister at work?

 

Not really keen on spending £25 to replace it, just for it to happen again, but on the other hand, i love the look of my EL dials as well so would idealy like them back, as its kinda hard to see what speed im doing at night lol

 

It was taking the feed off the bottom most screws.

possible the converter has shorted out, not much help other than that.

I would say it's just worn out mate, and gone kaput, should be able to get one alot cheaper than 25 quid too...

PM zed-sean, he has some invertors, really cheap. You wont be able to adjust anything, but they will be on and you can still dim from the, dimmer on the pod.

I would say it's just worn out mate, and gone kaput, should be able to get one alot cheaper than 25 quid too...

 

£25 is from the company that supplies them, that way it will have the correct number of connectors, as on the zed one, there are 4 EL's it needs to light up.

 

Groover, think you have told me that before already lol, but thanks again matey.

PM'ed him just waiting on reply now