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Re: Hazard lights

To: <SLCL914@aol.com>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Hazard lights
From: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:01:54 +0100
It's not complicated, it's simple.  In one position it shorts the two lights
together and then connect them to one side of the hazzard flasher, which
goes to +.  The other side it connects the lights through the indecator
switch from the flasher.  The green light is wired so that when one side
lights the other side is bridged by the green light, a tiny amount of
current flows through this light and through the bulbs on the other side.
Only this light can respond to this tiny amount of current.

The red lamp is connected accross the hazzard flaher so that when the
flasher is closed no current flows through the red lamp, but when flasher is
open, the current to light the lamp flows through the indecator bulbs.
Again this is enough to light only this red lamp.

Because the green lamp is connected directly accross the indecators when the
hazzards light this will not show becuase both sides are at the same
voltage.

Simple and produces what is actualy a very hard warning lamp effect.

Havent got the diagram here, it's all from memory but that's the way I would
do it.

All you have to do is undo the red bit, markt he orientation of the
plundger, and push it out.  Clean the contacts, on it and the switch and
push the spring contacts in a bit to make a better circuet.  Then reassemble
gettin the plundger in place.


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