[Healeys] illuminated toggle/push pull switches -??? ideas?

Greg Wilkinson gregwilkinson at roadrunner.com
Sun Oct 31 13:02:48 MST 2010


Don't forget that there are ground wires running inside the harness also. To
run ground switches, are you talking about isolating all compontents from
ground so they aren't on all the time?
-----Original Message-----
If you have a wire inside the wiring harness, it's safer to run a
power-switch circuit just in case it shorts with another wire in the
harness.

If you are running new wires outside the harness, it's safer to run a
ground-switch circuit because if it shorts out, it will likely short out
against the chassis, not another wire.  If that happens, all that will
happen is the auxiliary item will switch on.

If you run a hot wire throughout the car and it shorts against the chassis,
you'll get a nice fire/smoke to cook your trout on.

Alan
"Do any of you know of illuminated switches around that will work with a
grounding switch?  I can run a separate power wire from somewhere behind the
dash if necessary."

Doesn't this contridict what you are trying to do?


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