I'm with JCD:

Good advice there and the results are very nice. Not perfect but very nice. You can read the odometer at night, etc.
I did hard-wire it because I didn't want to mess with the knob anymore. I am simply waiting for more time to tackle the 2nd MB with the same fix.

Don

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