Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:43:53 -0400
Reply-To: "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@relitech.com>
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From: "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@relitech.com>
Subject: Fw: How is the fog light switch supposed to be wired?
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From: Dave Bayer <daveb@cp.net>
To: Bob Busick <RBusick@dutkogroup.com>
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Monday, August 14, 2000 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: How is the fog light switch supposed to be wired?
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>> The switch has three prongs on the back. One prong is marked with a "+"
the
>> other two aren't marked. Here is how I ran the wires and the end result
was
>> that I blew a fuse.
>>
>> * I connected the wire bringing power from the relay (supplied with
>> the fog lights) to the prong marked "+".
>> * I connected the wire that is marked "load" (in the directions
that
>> came with the lights) to the middle prong.
>> * I connected the ground wire to the third prong.
>>
>> I turned the headlights on and everything was cool. Then I turned the fog
>> lights on and I blew the driver side headlight's fuse. So I replaced the
>> fuse, reversed the load and power supply wires on the switch and blew the
>> same fuse again. Then it started to rain and I was out of fuses so I
packed
>> it in for the day.
>
> Remove the ground. Unless the switch is lighted, you shouldn't
>need it. If the switch is lighted, then you need to find the post
>that has the bulb in it - if there is a bulb, there should be a way
>to change it which means you can remove the bulb and trace which
>of the contacts goes to which of the posts...
>
> Then, are you running the switch inline between the relay
>and the foglights? I would assume you should be running as the
>activator for the fog light relay. Ie:
>
> low beam current track -----> fog switch ---> relay ---> gnd
> ||
> + (term 30) ---> fog fuse ---> relay ---> fogs
>
>dave
>daveb@cp.net
>
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