Author Topic: need electrical help on my parking light  (Read 2993 times)

erickmarciano

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need electrical help on my parking light
« on: May 22, 2006, 20:30:55 »
Hi all . we have been having real rainy weather here in Montreal , so since I had nothing better to do I wanted to fix the last problem on my car . here we go.
the right and left parking light never worked <since i got the car>.
one or two click left and no parking lights work . removed the light swith from the bottom . got no power on the wire that is supose to power the parking light< the one going to the ignition switch terminal Pa >.right next to it at terminal 30 <red wires.i get power .when I use a jumper wire from terminal 30 to Pa the fuel pump starts working and now the parking light work when I turn the switch .what to do .it has to be missing a diode somewhere
thanks

1999 ml320<sold it at last>
2004 Volvo s60 T5
1971 280sl
1962 VW bug
1954 Allstate vespa
1958 gs150 vespa
1962 gs160 vespa
1994 E500 W124
1971 280sl
1989 Porsche 930 coupe
1988 e30 m3
2001 ducati mh900
2006 ps1000
1962 Vespa GS160

erickmarciano

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Re: need electrical help on my parking light
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2006, 21:23:07 »
update on the problem

disconected terminal Pa from the light switch then powered Pa wth a jumper and now the switch works in the 2 position , but with the key in any possition not only in possition 0 . the wire that was in Pa gets power only in possiton 1 on the key switch , so I guess the problem is in the ignition switch.???should the fuel pump work in possition 1?

1999 ml320<sold it at last>
2004 Volvo s60 T5
1971 280sl
1962 VW bug
1954 Allstate vespa
1958 gs150 vespa
1962 gs160 vespa
« Last Edit: May 22, 2006, 21:26:46 by erickmarciano »
1994 E500 W124
1971 280sl
1989 Porsche 930 coupe
1988 e30 m3
2001 ducati mh900
2006 ps1000
1962 Vespa GS160

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Re: need electrical help on my parking light
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2006, 09:59:22 »
PA-r and PA-l are fed from PA at the light switch, but the PA feed is from the ignition sw  P when at O position.
 So your test is to see if you have 12v at ignition sw P when in 0 position.. if not , the ign sw is suspect..
 Te reason your fuel pump came on when you jumpered is b/c you were back-feeding the ignition sw to feed 30 , causing the fuel pump circuit to active.....no diode