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RE: [T3] Lights


On 7 Feb 2006 at 22:33, Russ Wolfe wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 22:14, Jim Adney wrote:

> > Do you mean that the earlier cars have 4 fuses, or that they still 
> > just have 2 but that they are divided F/R rather than L/R?

> No, they had 3 fuses, left and right rear, and front. Two fuses for the
> rear because they also carried the license light and rear dome light.

> http://classicvw.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=2375&g2_imageViewsIndex=1

> Note the 2 terminals on the light switch. #57 and #58. These go to fuses
> 1&2 and 7 respectively.

Okay, that helps a lot. It seems odd that they felt they needed so many fuses, 
for lamps that must have drawn about 1A apiece. I never would have thought to 
look all the way down to fuse # 7....

> 58 is the front park lights, and 57 is the rear park lights.

It looks like you got those reversed: 57 = fronts, 58 = rears.

I see that the parking light indicator on the dash is fed from fuse 57, so that 
it goes off when the front parking lights go off. Since the dash light behaves 
the same way in the late cars, I guess this means that the switch still has to 
have the same contacts, they just get wired up differently. So the late switch 
would not have been cheaper.

Thanks for posting the schematic.

-- 
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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