[TR] TR] 2-speed wiper wiring diagram

carlsereda carlsereda at aol.com
Mon Sep 28 17:46:58 MDT 2009


Tony, 
What you say makes my day.. the additional winding, which I seem to recall was
of thinner wire and wound over the standard field coil about 50 times (ie; not
very much I thought..) - is not for strengthening the magnetic field but for
weakening it to give a slower speed! - I assumed it was to give a faster speed
but now what you say makes a whole lot more sense - THANKS!
Carl
'63TR4 since '74

Carl, 

I helped Dan write his section on the 2-speed wipers in his electrical
manual.  I had a TR4A 2-speed motor out on my desk at the time.  I did not
dismantle it.  I found that the "low" speed was obtained by grounding BOTH of
the switched wires.  It made no sense to me.  A few hypotheses were made about
why this may be true, but that seems to be the way it works.  I have been
tempted over the tears to pursue this further, but I never bothered.  To me
they are literally a black box, but I woud be interested to see how they
really work!  Keep me in the loop too!

-Tony


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