# SDR DL76L001953

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: October 8, 2000
- Submitted: October 10, 2000
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: N182DN
- Make and model: Boeing 767332
- Aircraft serial: 25987
- Aircraft time: 38,454 hours, 5,898 cycles
- System (JASC): [3310 · Flight Compartment Lighting](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/3310)
- Part: Rheostat
- Condition: Failed
- Location: Switch Panel
- Stage of operation: TX
- How discovered: O
- Nature of condition: B
- Precautionary procedure: H
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/DL76L001953

## Discrepancy

AFTER LANDING THERE WAS A BURNING ELECTRICAL SMELL IN COCKPIT COULD NOT TELL WHERE IT WAS COMING FROM.  FOUND BURNING SMELL CAME FROM OUT OF F/O P7 PNL P7 SWITCH.  SUSPECT INTERNAL ARCING IN RHEOSTAT WAS HOT.  PULLED C/B P31 ON P11 PNL.  FWD TO MCO AND PLACARD.

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