[AT] Also Slightly Off Topic,Car with blue light power trouble

[Carl Gogol]

Charley,  Car is a "no key" system with start and stop push button only.
Len, Parking lights are a great possibility, but not sure what the current
draw is for the four of them, they too might be LEDs.  A lot of the guys
with incandescent blue lights leave their cars running, but I am too cheap
to consider that a solution.
Thanks for the great input to you both.
Carl
Manlius, NY

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 1:07 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Also Slightly Off Topic,Car with blue light power trouble

If it's like my '06 GMC truck you can turn the ignition switch one click
toward the start position and it should stay hot.  To clarify, when I turn
my key there is one click, then a second click and then a "momentary"
position which engages the starter. 
When the key
is released the key goes back to the second click position (run).  The first
click seems to be the same as the older vehicles where you turn the key
backwards one click for accessory.

I'll have to double check but I think one of the aux outlets in my truck
stays hot all the time.

Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Len Rugen
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 12:07 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Also Slightly Off Topic,Car with blue light power trouble

Do you leave your parking lights on during this time?  If so, you might be
able to add to that circuit in the trunk, then run up to the back seat.
If that timer circuit is like the AUX/Radio my impala, opening the door also
turns it off.

Len Rugen

rugenl at yahoo.com




    On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 10:22 AM, Carl Gogol <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
wrote:


Not a tractor related question but the advice is always so good here;

Got a new '16 Chevy Malibu and discovered that the power to the 12V 
auxiliary power outlets goes off 10 minutes after shutting the car off.  Not

a problem except when I want to run my blue light when parked on the road 
while answering a fire/ems call that can last much longer.  I am told that 
the relay is computer controlled so a longer time delay relay is not an 
option.
Dealer wants at least $200 to install an additional aux outlet run direct 
from battery.  I don't really like the idea of drilling through the fire 
wall ripping up the carpet to the back seat area where the chosen outlet 
already exists.
Running the LED blue light from a cheap jumper battery from HF comes to 
mind, but it is perhaps large for the back but not so terribly so.

This just came to mind, how about a jumper across the relay?  Find a 
matching socket to place under the relay and run a jumper on that.  Gets to 
be an infinite delay relay, just like most cars.  Get me in trouble?

Other ideas?  Schematic that might show where 12V exits in compartment 
already.

Carl
Manlius, NY


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