what is this called?
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what is this called?
Ok, I am having a massive brain fart, in my car i want to have sort of a dimmer switch put in to the + side of my dome light, what is its real name? (dimmer switch?) or is it like flow control switch?
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I work on OLD cars a lot, back then it was called a rheostat, a wire wound variable resistor. Controls on modern cars don't use the same technology, but according to Webster, that is still a good definition.