Please reply to Dave, not me!

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bayer [mailto:daveb@cp.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:23 PM
To: Vanagon Mail
Subject: Re: How is the fog light switch supposed to be wired?

> 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