<VV> Electrics

[Hugo Miller]

Yes, this car did have a power top. At any rate there were no assistor 
springs to help it up, which made it very hard work! I got a couple from 
Corvair Ranch. But I've not seen a switch or hydraulic mechanism, so I 
don't know where that all went. I much prefer the manual top on a 
Corvair - I can flip it up in half a second by hand. My 1960 Impala's 
power top takes about twenty seconds, and you can get pretty wet in 
Florida in that space of time!
I thought the silver box was a circuit breaker, but I had no idea what 
for. My wiring diagram shows no yellow wires. I actually have two 
completely different wiring diagrams. Or rather, the diagrams are 
identical but the colors are all different. For instance, one has a 
white wire going from the stop light switch to the turn signal switch, 
the other shows a black wire!
And I never saw an automatically re-setting circuit breaker till I took 
one of Chevy's light switches to bits!
What a clever idea to put the resistor in the demister vent itself - 
not only cools the resistor but heats the air at the same time. Neat!

On 2020-03-08 14:18, Frank DuVal wrote:
> Circuit breaker for a power top.
>
> I’m surprised they are not seen in commercial vehicles in Europe.
> Very typical vehicle circuit breakers here in North America. They are
> automatic resetting. Just like the ones used in headlamp switches.
>
> Heater blower resistor pack. They place them here to cool them. I
> know, hot air is used to cool, but some nice they glow red in use, 
> the
> hot air from the engine is actually cooler.
>
> Frank DuVal
>
>> On Mar 8, 2020, at 2:07 PM, Jim Becker via VirtualVairs 
>> <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
>>
>> 1) Suggest you look at the fuse panel.
>> 2) Location and yellow wires hint at A/C rectifier.  If so, power 
>> should come on with headlights.
>> 3) Probably the heater fan resistors.
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs
>> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2020 11:05 AM
>> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>> Subject:  Electrics
>>
>> I have the passenger seat out of the '64 convertible I'm rebuilding,
>> and I've been lying on my back in the passenger footwell (looking 
>> for
>> somewhere to hook up the radio). So I'm looking at things you 
>> wouldn't
>> normally see. In doing so I have found a couple of things I can't
>> identify. There is a silver box just to the left of the glove box,
>> smaller than a relay, with two fat yellow wires going to it. They 
>> may be
>> yellow plus something else, but predominantly yellow. They are 
>> permanent
>> +, or rather one is, and that energises the other. I'm thinking it 
>> might
>> be a circuit breaker of some sort?
>> And something I've never seen before - there is some kind of sensor
>> inside the right hand demister vent. What on earth does that do?