Dan, that's the way the ones on my cars work too.
Robert Bishop
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From: Dan Morton <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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
>
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