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Detecting burnt out cluster lights while outside in sunlight
Posted to the Waveform Library on 1/2/2018

Working on a fleet vehicle in the bright sunlight. Driver indicated some of the instrument cluster illumination lights were burnt out, but he couldn't remember which ones. Used FLIR "One" attached to iPhone5 to capture a quick image. This image is 1/2 of the cluster/circuit board. In the top right hand corner of the image we see one of the 3 bulbs that failed. There is another image with the other 2 bulbs, but this image shows another use for a thermal image camera

Mark Sarlo
Owner/Engineer
Tri-State Diagnostics
La Junta, Colorado, USA