Date:         Fri, 3 Oct 2003 02:23:15 -0400
Reply-To:     "T.M." <tinkerman007@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         "T.M." <tinkerman007@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: # warning buzzer for turn signal and parking lights left on
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:54:19 -0400, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
wrote:

>European method -- when you park beside the road, you engage the turn
>signal to light the marker lights on the side nearest the road.

Yup. If "marker lights" means parking light, then we mean the same.

>Most US
>Vgons not wired that way.
>

Yes. I'm from Europe.

>For the headlight buzzerl, you need a buzzer with a diode in it --

Hey, how come I didn't think about the diode (trivial) solution?...

>Hook the red end to
>the parking light circuit, and the black end to some line that switches on
>with the ignition.  Result is the buzzer will buzz if the headlights are
on but the ignition is not.  Very easy.

It would be much easier if I didn't need to tap into the wires but rather
could find the relevant circuit points in a convenient location such as an
empty socket in the fuse box...maybe a "Y" connector on one of the light
switch connectors, etc.
Any idea for easy connection points (no wire tapping needed)?
Also, I might need TWO diodes, 1 for every parking light. Any single
connection point solution?

>Could do another one (or even a bit of diode logic and one buzzer) for the
>turn signals.

No, it seems I don't need to monitor the turn signals after all.
My mistake.