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What turns on when the car turns off?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:21 am
by chimpboy
I have to replace the key-switch in the stag, as the original is a bit stuffed. The replacement comes from a different car and has an additional terminal, which gets 12V when the ignition is turned OFF, but which doesn't have power when the ignition or accessories etc are on. Since I am doing a fair bit of rewiring anyway, I was trying to think of any vaguely useful job this terminal could do.
Any thoughts? I really can't think of anything.
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:13 pm
by Dooley
Maybe like a window closer, electric aerial....
Dunno, do you know what the terminal was originally used for ?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:36 pm
by Leeroy
Yeah a cheap flashing LED if you don't already have an alarm/immobilizer, it can at least LOOK like it does!
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:37 pm
by chimpboy
Dooley wrote:Maybe like a window closer, electric aerial....
Dunno, do you know what the terminal was originally used for ?
No idea, it is just a terminal on the switch that has no wire on it, while all the others have a wire soldered to them. So I guess it might have been unused. Although it is strange that it exists at all.
Odd!
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:25 pm
by -Scott-
Alarm?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:31 pm
by chimpboy
I like the flashing LED idea.
Alarms I think usually sense the ignition being off, so...
The funny thing is that the key switch thing is from a 1972 triumph saloon, so it can't possibly have been for an alarm or whatever.
Maybe I will wire it to a flashing LED, since it's there. I can't be bothered with real alarms any more, I don't think they achieve much except to cause hassles when they malfunction!
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:26 pm
by bunder_ute
hey...
it may be similar to an old school switch.
off is the click before that...
that terminal is like accessories
so it goes
1: accessories
2: off
3: ignition
4: start
just a quick question.....what did the switch come out of?
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:36 pm
by macca81
bunder_ute wrote:
just a quick question.....what did the switch come out of?
chimpboy wrote:the key switch thing is from a 1972 triumph saloon
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:01 pm
by bunder_ute
the age is about right.......