Date:         Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:11:05 -0400
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Daytime Running Lights
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At 04:25 PM 7/10/2013, Robert Fisher wrote:
>I'm in Canada now and I'd like to avoid either running down my battery or
>getting a ticket ... anybody care to repeat that information, please? TIA

Radio Shack 273-055 (four bucks in the US) is a little twelve-volt
buzzer that makes a very good and easy headlight monitor.  It's small
and has a low pitch (300-500 Hz) so us old deef folks can hear
it.  It's polarized, only runs if the red wire is positive.  This
makes it very easy to hook up.  Red wire to parking light feed from
the headlight switch, black wire to ignition switch 15
terminal.  Little piece of double-sticky mounting foam to put it
somewhere convenient.

You could wire two of them in opposite directions so it would also
yell if you turned the ignition on and did *not* turn the headlights
on.  Or better yet wire the second one red side to the alternator D+
from the panel and the black to the parking lights.  That way it
wouldn't yell until the engine was running.

Yrs,
d