Re: Hot Circuits

["Tony Lupton" <t.lupton@domain.elided>]

Charlie Schwartz wrote:

> In my GTV6 I know for a fact the light in the glove compartment is on a
hot
> circuit but is controlled by the headlight stalk; that light does not go
on
> unless the running lights are switched on.  I believe it's the same in the
> spider.  (I purposely said "my GTV6" because for those of us with
previously
> owned cars, there is a better than even chance someone, sometime, has
screwed
> around with the electrics and what you wind up with may or may not be the
way
> it rolled out of the factory.)

My 90 has an unusual arrangement of courtesy lights. The glovebox light
comes on with the ignition, the boot light comes on with the parking lights
(as does the engine bay light, which despite being positioned over the
dipstick, isn't bright enough to let you get the dipstick into the hold
without fumbling). The owner's manual confirms that these are the way they
are supposed to be. Sigh. I think it was a case of put the door-open
sensors in the door handles themselves, and avoid the use of any micro-
switches anywhere else where they might be useful. But I just remembered
that the fusebox light is on when the fusebox door is open.

Tony
1985 Alfa 90 2.5i
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