<VV> Marker lights improvement

[corvairduval at cox.net]

Daniel, Don't reinvent the wheel. ggg

Many single filament side marker lamps (like 194) show both marker and
directional functions. The idea is this, the light lights when the marker
lights should be on, but go off when the signal flashes. Now in the
daylight with the lights off, they will not flash. You do this by grounding
the lamp to the turn signal wire. The small current required by the 194
lamp will flow through the turn signal filament to ground just fine. But
when the turn signal turns on, the side marker goes off, as the turn signal
wire also now has 12 volts on it, so a ground path is not there.

If you want the side marker to flash with the lights off, feed the turn
signal wire to the coil of the relay, ground the other coil terminal. And
wire an always hot wire (fused) to the NO (normally open) contact of the
relay and the common contact to the lamp. The NC (normally closed) contact
of the relay is wired to the lighting circuit, where the marker lamp is
currently connected.

Frank DuVal

Subject: <VV> Marker lights improvement


   As part of several modifications I've made to the 64 GB, while restoring
it, added 69 car side marker lights but, they use bulbs with one filament
only and, want they work as directional lights too, So instead of searching
for that size bulbs with 2 filaments I decided to make them work with the
original single bulbs in both ways.
   Maybe this has been done previously and I'm just reinventing the wheel
but, if not, and somebody wants to make 68-69 marker lights work as
directionals too, just tell me to send the electrical diagram. All needed
parts to get is a standard 12V-30A relay per light.

   Daniel Monasterio
(Compulsively working on the GB)
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