DTrain wrote:
So does that mean all early minis dont have hazard lights?
Yep hazard lights are in the same category as reversing lights - having only appeared in the 70s. Hazard light relays are bloody expensive but you can make your own by hooking up the flasher relay both ways. I did a post on the flasher operation awhile back but concisely the flasher relay is a bimetalic switch which is permanently connected to a switched +12v on one side. On the other side it goes to the indicator stalk which in turn is connected to the indicator lights.
By flicking the stalk left or right you connect each light in turn to the flasher relay. Each light is permanently earthed on one side. So when the light is connected to the flasher relay through the stalk the flasher relay goes closed circuit and the bimetalic switch inside it begins to switch on and off rappidly (thus opening and closing the +12v to the lights) and the lights start blinking.
So if you were to take both the indicator light inputs to the indicator stalk and run them through a switch that connects them both to the indicator relay when switched on - you've got hazard light.
It is important to use a 3 terminal swich though that keeps all the terminals disconnected when switched off - otherwise you'll have a permanent connection between the indicators on both sides all the time.
Or if you want to use a regular 2 terminal switch just hook each terminal to indic. light feeds from each side then to use hazard lights just flick the switch and then push the indicator stalk left or right.
