Dan, that's the way the ones on my cars work too. Robert Bishop -----Original Message----- From: Dan Morton <morton@RAD.UPENN.EDU> To: L-FORWARDLOOK@LISTS.PSU.EDU <L-FORWARDLOOK@LISTS.PSU.EDU> Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 3:02 PM Subject: [FWDLK] '55 Savoy -- Question about headlight switch >I'm rewiring my '55 Savoy -- it's a mess under the dashboard. I've pulled >the headlight switch out, and given it a continuity check. I've discovered >something curious, and I don't know if it's a "feature" or a "defect". > >What I observe is that in the parking lights on position, the contacts are >closed to the front lights and the taillights. In the headlights on >position, the contacts to the taillights remain closed, but the contacts to >the front lights open! (The contacts to the headlights, of course, close.) > >Since the lamp that illuminates the keyswitch is driven by a contact ganged >to the front light contact, I can rationalize that you don't want interior >light from the keyswitch when you have the headlights on, and that there is >no need for front running lights with the headlights on either. Is this >what the designers had in mind in 1955, or do I just have a bad switch on my >hands?! > > adTHANKSvance, > Dan > |