Chrysler Repair: 1985 LeBaron / New Yorker: overhead console wiring, ambient air temperature, ambient air temperature sensor

Question
Hey Roland, I've seen some of the questions you've answered and I hope you ca help me with mine. Here's the thing, I bought from a 1984, maybe 1985 Le Baron a "roof console" which has a dial which should display a compass and a thermometer; it also has a pair of courtesy lights which I've already tested and actually work, I also checked which pins make these work. I have two main questions: this console has some electronic circuits in it, what I wonder is if these have in them some "built-in" sensors, for the compass and the thermometer, or if this sensors are somewhere else in the car; where?. My second "request" is that you could send me the function of each of this console's pins, because I don't even have the wire harness, so I'm going to adapt it to my car starting from zero. The only 3 pins of which I know its function are the ones belonging to the 12v, the ground and the door pin which control the courtesy lights. Thanks for your help.  

Answer
Hi Raul,
Sorry I don't have a scanner. But I can xerox and postal mail the pages to you next Tuesday. Let me know a mailing address via the 'rate the expert' tab, again. And verify please which year/model was the donor, and which is the recipient vehicle.
Roland




Hi Raul,
The overhead console is the name of that item. It has one external ambient air temperature sensor for the thermometer that is located on the vertical grille support in the '85. So go back to the donor vehicle and get that sensor. The wires for the sensor input are violet/orange and black/orange. The gray and gray/black wires are grounds.
The orange wire is the voltage for the display when the headlamps are not "on". The dark blue/red is for courtesy entry lighting. And the yellow/black is for display dimming when the headlamps are "on". You didn't tell me what car you are trying to install this into so I can't tell you about whether/where you would find these circuits to connect the wires to. If it is an '85 New Yorker that would be no problem because they are both shown in the same diagrams
So let me know and perhaps I can xerox and postal mail you the wiring diagrams for the console and for the connection possibilities for you present car.
The compass is built-in to the unit. I could not find an explanation how to calibrate that unit but I might be able to locate it in a nearby year manual that I have.
Roland