[W126 Coupe] clock problem

[Vedat Iplikci]

Hi Markus,

To check if the power cable is live, you need a voltmeter and test for 12V. The red (live) probe to the clock cable and the black (neutral) probe to any good metal point on the chassis. If you don't have a meter around, you can easily test it with a known to be working 12V bulb also.

To check the clock itself, connect the red cable from the battery to the connector where the original power cable is connected on the clock. For the black, you should inspect the clock to find a negative connector. If there isn't any, then the body of the clock is the correct point for the black cable. You can verify this by inspecting the clock's original position in the intrument cluster. It must have some point where the negative connection from the cluster contacts the clock body.

If the clock doesn't work, then your last resort would be a capacitor change.

Hope this helps,

Vedat Iplikci
1987 560 SEC Euro
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Markus Meyer 
  To: mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 3:54 AM
  Subject: [W126 Coupe] clock problem


        Hi gang,

        I'm hoping someone can give some suggestions on what to do with a clock problem I'm having. Last year it was acting up, so on Dick's suggestion, I sent it to the Benz store in Georgia (after unsuccessfully trying to put in new capacitors myself) and got a rebuilt one. Worked fine until last month when it suddenly just stopped working. Fuse #2 which says clock also works other items that are working, so I'm assuming its not as simple as that. Right now, I have the cluster pulled out enough so that I could take the power wire off the old clock and attached just that to the new clock, and its not moving. So, I'm assuming that power wire is bad? 

        1) How can I check if the wire is "live" or has power?
        2) How can I check the clock by itself. I know hook it up to a 12V battery, but how - where do the red and black wires go to from the battery to the clock?

        Other ideas on what to check for? Anything obvious I'm just missing? Everything else in the cluster, including the tach, work just fine.

        Thanks,
        Markus



        Markus Meyer
        484-919-9762 (cell)
        http://www.meyerprobateproperties.com/
       



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