Re: [FWDLK] '55 Savoy -- Question about headlight switch

[Robert Bishop <bishop@FRONTIERCOM.BC.CA>]

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
>