[LancePearson]

I double checked the dimmer switch setting this morning. When parking lights are on all the orange back lights on the radio light just like the rest of the dash and are dimmed or not with the dimmer. When the radio is on and you push a function button the small green lights come on as they should. It appears the incandescents that light the radio in orange are the lights which make things orange through the distribution plastic and are controlled by the dimmer and they are both on and working. Hard to imagine I damaged both incand. Small bulbs since I touched neither and I now know they are working because they light a lot when you turn the parking or headlights on.

I now think what happened is that when I switched the existing circuit board from the back of the old scratched face unit then incorrectly tried to put that unit back on the radio while it was in place and did not get the pins right that in pressing somehow I must have damaged some type of very tiny, low current draw light wired directly into the inside of that board on the back of the face unit itself which illustrates the displace space alone for the clock, the radio station, the cd track, etc. info which is displayed either through pushing too hard or some other mechanism.

Every other light, of which there are many displays, on the radio and every other function now works perfectly save that. The display displays and in daylight it works well enough to use but when light is low the letters displayed in the display are black and need the contrast of a low level backlight.

I won't take it apart again since I am not up to soldering on a solid state board and if the used/new unit coming works I'll drop it in then send this one back to Dr. Don and let him do it and return it to me. I know it's not popular to say this here but I like the radio and the sound that comes out of it in the car and won't mind having a ready backup just in case. It's been a learning experience anyway.

I did not take a photo of the inside of the board on the face unit when I had it apart, only the completed and assembled face unit from the back so I can't be sure but logic gets me here and I now see for 99% that the two incandescent 1/4" diameter bulbs appear to be working perfectly. Therefore, it's probably what I think . Thks for diagram.