SIMULTANEOUS OPERATION OF TRAFFICATORS AND FLASHERS OFF ONE TURN-SWITCH AND MORE.
Many people driving their vintage car regularly on the road want to keep their trafficators, which is a fabulously fun feature of vintage… but also want the safety of flashing modern lights. Turning right (or left USA) is a dangerous manoeuver with just trafficators… and you’re likely to be rear-ended… or worse… T-boned in an overtake as you turn (T-bone… as they approach, they cannot understand why you are just “sitting” there in the road, as no one looks at the side of the car for some tiny dim pointer, so they impatiently overtake, just as you turn… I personally nearly lost my life forty years ago when exactly that happened… luckily for some reason I delayed... and this maniac whooshed past, overtaking me... close one!!)
Having the two systems operate simultaneously off the one switch would give you the best of both worlds. But one is constant and one is an intermittent pulse… a square-wave.
This then, is the easy way to achieve this dual operation. No “two switches” which is about the silliest idea I’ve ever seen… who uses two switches every time you turn a corner???
In addition you get notes on SD84 dash-switches and how the two types of SD84 vary and the wiring associated with that. Eg Morris Minor, A30 , Landrover. Ignore if not required.
Also many diagrams on steering wheel-switches and how to apply the idea to them eg Devon A40
The idea is simple but I go into a lot of detail to cover every skill level.
Also how to wire a “freeway” or “passenger” switch. This kills the trafficators so only flashers work.
Why? FREEWAY. Over 80kph the traffs tend to not drop back properly, so you can cut them till later. The flashers keep working. PASSENGER. If you have a passenger, you also may wish to turn them off before the following happens… and it does a lot!! As a modern driver, when you drop a passenger at the kerb, you leave your indicators on… it is habit… the passenger gets out… SNAP… end of trafficator. Turn them off right at the start of the trip, but keep the flashers… then you won’t forget.
If you see this listing, and decide you want to ADD flashers… and use this idea… then see my items on 488 and 594 red, amber, clear glass lights. Note these lights can also be underslung on a panel under the bumper… if you’re not keen on cutting holes in your car.
Also a little bit on diode-theory and how it can help with vintage turn-switches etc using the more difficult one-dash-light system (remember a modern car has two lights on your dash, one for right, one for left!!)… a 5 cent diode can make your life so-o-o much easier!!
This is sent by mail and is all hand-written and drawn. I can answer questions too post-purchase as best I can, given the obvious limitations of not being at your car!!!
To look for items in my shop, the easiest way is to save any ONE of MY 2600 items in your watchlist... Then, whenever you want to peruse my 2600 items... go to this sample listing… and simply click on the hyperlink called “visit store” at the top right of this item. That will take you to a page with my 50 store categories... click the category, and that category will be displayed with photos on the right... thus a “window-shop”.
Plodding through the Ebay mire of the general search box... or the “see other items” hyperlink is simply the way to insanity.
If you’re using Ebay’s useless mobile app, I’m sorry... I have no idea how you will find them… this app is a real shocker/compromise in quality and half the links and features are missing. Go to your PC is my advice.
SHOP-category examples “ALTERNATORS” or "BRAKE" or “badges” or "TRAFFICATOR parts" or "LIGHTS" or "AXLES" or "COOLING" or “SWITCHES” etc etc