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@Marshall posted:....tried the light switch to see if it was also a dimmer. Unfortunately no...
Probably a blessing in disguise.
On the Chinese knockoff headlight switches found in many of our cars, the panel dimmer is the Achilles heel.
That circuit has to handle a surprising amount of power - the more you dim the lights, the more power gets dissipated by the switch. The original switches had pretty beefy rheostats to handle the load, but that was in a land far away and long ago.
My own switch literally went up in smoke the first time I tried to dim the panel lights, and VS would only send me a switch identical to that one. I ended up moving that circuit off the switch and wiring up some load resistors to dim the lights - and it took quite a few of those to spread the heat out enough to keep them from getting too hot.
Swapping in LED bulbs is a better choice.
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