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

[Len Rugen]

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

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    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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