[AT] 3-position light switch (was RE: "After Tractor is running"questions.)

[Dave Merchant]

Farmalls used a 3 position rotary switch with a big knob.

Dave Merchant

At 10:39 AM 10/9/2010, charlie hill wrote:
>Yep that's what I was remembering.  I was never around much Case equipment
>so it must have been used on another brand as well.
>
>Charlie
>
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>From: "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
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>Subject: [AT] 3-position light switch (was RE: "After Tractor is
>running"questions.)
>
> >> I think there was some tractor I grew up around that had a 3 position
> >> pull out switch (off, on and on/lights) or something along those lines
> >
> > Charlie, my old Case VAH was like that, and I assume other Case tractors
> > from that general era would have been the same.  The tractor used a cutout
> > relay instead of a voltage regulator, so you had to manually control the
> > charge rate with the light switch.  Off was no lights, no charge; on was
> > no
> > lights but charging the battery; all the way out was lights on plus
> > charging
> > the battery.  I'd guess other tractor makes probably used those same
> > switches as well.
> >
> > Dean Vinson
> > Dayton, Ohio
> > www.vinsonfarm.net
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