<VV> Fw: Marker lights improvement

[Daniel Monasterio]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Monasterio" <dmonasterio at megared.net.mx>
To: <corvairduval at cox.net>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Marker lights improvement


> Hi Frank,
>   Thanks for your comments, will stop with the wheel to reinvent powder 
> instead !!
> In fact, this morning tested the circuitry and worked this way:
> 1.- With parking/driving lights off , directionals on, the marker lights 
> blink correctly.
> 2.- With directionals off, park lights on, the marker lights go on.
> 3.- With both park & dirs. on, the marker lights go on without blinking 
> (theoretically it blinks real fast) but, doesn't matter for me as I am a 
> daylight only driver.
>
> Anyways, will check the original diagrams to follow the current path to 
> check what you told me.
>
> Saludos
>
> Daniel Monasterio
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <corvairduval at cox.net>
> To: <dmonasterio at megared.net.mx>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:59 PM
> Subject: RE: <VV> Marker lights improvement
>
>
> 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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