Weather and Wiring

[55 Fargo]

Hey all the weather here in Glorious Southern Manitoba is more like Missouri today and tonight.

It is March19th, technically still winter, and suually just the beginning of our spring thaw.

But is has been highly unsually warm, with temps at 75 today. Tonight we had a major T/storm go through, thunder,rain and lighting. I have neever in all my life seen this kind of weather here in all my 50 years, it is quite bizarre, walking around with May or early June weather here, and I am not complaining.

Okay now the wiring part, today my new Tawainese signal swtich came, wired her in, it works great, it has 4 way flashers too.

The only thing is this, there is the little green indicator lights on the switch, which work, when you turn to either left or right, but there is a red light in the middle of the green lights, which stays on as soon as I power up the circuit, by in my case turning the key to on. Is this the way it is supposed to be, I am using a 3 prong 6volt electronic flasher on 12 volts, would that cause this?

Anyway, it works well, it is made cheap, but what the heck, hope everyone is enjoying the weather. PS Aero 3113, the frogs are hoppin around here in full force, as you may remember from your visit here 2 years ago....

[55 Fargo]

Just for future reference for anyone using a universal 7 wire signal stat switch, and if your going with 12 volts.

#1 if you plan to use the tawainese made switch that I used keep in mind the wiring harness for it, has 18 or 20 gauge wire, not suitable really for any 6 volt application, I suppose it could be cut short, and 16 gauge wire could be used.

My problem was the signal switch hazard flasher was staying on all the time, the problem was the flasher, on the pilot terminal, iwas live once power was at the X terminal.

I replace it witha Tridon Heavy Duty 3 prong signal flasher EL13, and that solved my problem.

I am posting this for anyone having this problem in the future...