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Mounting switch next to dimmer wheel on Festiva
I've a "new" Mexican made illuminated white plastic toggle switch I've had since perhaps '82.
I've been thinking this might be ideal to wire into the circuit for the wire to the thermostatically controlled cooling fan, from the sensor to the relay; to break that circuit, thus turning on the fan.
My desire is to mount this switch once wired successfully; in the panel to the left of the steering wheel that also includes the wheel dimmer for the instrument panel lights. Though I have no idea how to access this area, am not sure how to mount the switch there, or which of the two available sections of the plastic panel might be preferable?
The white toggle switch has an orange translucent window which illuminates when the switch is closing its circuit; with "12V" and "MEXICO" on one side of the plastic switch body behind the toggle, with "E7560" on the opposite side. Under what looks like a trademark-a low triangle with the base on the bottom and inside that triangle maybe the letters "CC"(squished at their tops to fit) under a smaller triangle, perhaps, above them near the top of the larger triangle.
There is a removable chrome clip surrounding the white toggle, built to hold the switch firmly in a hole through material not much more than a 1/16" thick. The hole would need to fit the switch accurately to function well, but I'm pretty good at that sort of thing; both making a hole then shaping that to fit.
There are three brass "spade"(male) type electrical connectors on the back of the switch.
One of these connectors is in the middle of the switch, with the other two diagonal from each other on either end of the switch, so that one of those is on the same side of the switch as the connector in the middle. The connector in the middle is a ground so the light will work. One of the others on one end is to 12v and the other to the other side of the circuit.
(thats my mother in our garage at 1510 West Hilyard Lane in Eugene in the first photo; my father in the second in an Isuzu Trooper of his decades later...)
I've been thinking this might be ideal to wire into the circuit for the wire to the thermostatically controlled cooling fan, from the sensor to the relay; to break that circuit, thus turning on the fan.
My desire is to mount this switch once wired successfully; in the panel to the left of the steering wheel that also includes the wheel dimmer for the instrument panel lights. Though I have no idea how to access this area, am not sure how to mount the switch there, or which of the two available sections of the plastic panel might be preferable?
The white toggle switch has an orange translucent window which illuminates when the switch is closing its circuit; with "12V" and "MEXICO" on one side of the plastic switch body behind the toggle, with "E7560" on the opposite side. Under what looks like a trademark-a low triangle with the base on the bottom and inside that triangle maybe the letters "CC"(squished at their tops to fit) under a smaller triangle, perhaps, above them near the top of the larger triangle.
There is a removable chrome clip surrounding the white toggle, built to hold the switch firmly in a hole through material not much more than a 1/16" thick. The hole would need to fit the switch accurately to function well, but I'm pretty good at that sort of thing; both making a hole then shaping that to fit.
There are three brass "spade"(male) type electrical connectors on the back of the switch.
One of these connectors is in the middle of the switch, with the other two diagonal from each other on either end of the switch, so that one of those is on the same side of the switch as the connector in the middle. The connector in the middle is a ground so the light will work. One of the others on one end is to 12v and the other to the other side of the circuit.
(thats my mother in our garage at 1510 West Hilyard Lane in Eugene in the first photo; my father in the second in an Isuzu Trooper of his decades later...)
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