Jim wrote:
BarryB wrote:
I've been waiting for my switch to die, it's the original 1972. I have a spare just waiting but I usually go by the saying "if it ain't broken don't fix it"...
Barry, a couple years ago I kept having my H2's main fuse blow at what seemed like random times. While I was trying to figure out what was causing it, I installed a circuit breaker in place of the fuse. I finally found that it was the rear brake switch that was shorting to ground... sometimes. At least I have a nice circuit breaker now, as well as a new switch.
Wow Jim, sounds like a trouble I had on my old F100. Intermittently I would loose my tail lights (fuse pop). I wired in a 12v light off the hot/feed side of the fuse through a toggle switch (so I could turn off the light and not drain the battery when it's going to sit for a while). Been a few years and I've only blown the fuse once that I remember (light is off when fuse blows).
I think what it's doing is acting like a ballast (we called them that in the Phone Company). Dunno - you know more about these things than me. But you can see the red light and toggle switch in the picture in the middle of the dash above the gauges.