Unused buttons from options

[Viper5]

Hmm.. I'll look around for that post. Specifically I'm trying to hook up a push button with two positions so that only one side of the switch will be used. That way hitting once will activate and hitting again will deactivate. Thanks.

[RandallNeighbour]

The switch you are describing is the same one used for the defroster on the dash. That has one side on and the other side turning it off. Sunset sells them.

[Viper5]

I may have been unclear. I'm looking for a two sided switch, whereby only using one side will turn on and off the circuit (like a pushbutton). The other side will control something else.

[RandallNeighbour]

Gotcha!

I thought the top switch might be your solution if wired right, but if you need whatever it is turned off with the same side of the switch it probably wouldn't work.

You've created quite the switch dream there, friend. We need us an electrical engineer to chime in on this thread. I'm just a minister! What do I know about switch design? :dance:

[Viper5]

If it turns out to be a big deal I may just make a separate switch somewhere else even though it would be nice to integrate it into the premade ones. Push buttons are really simple, but attaching to the unused buttons may prove difficult.

[Lil bastard]

I did end up using an aftermarket MOMO switch for my garage door opener and just drilled it into the switch blank... looks 'almost' stock.

[Viper5]

I may do something like that. Can you take a pic? I'd like to know how it turned out

[70Sixter]

Originally Posted by Viper5

I may have been unclear. I'm looking for a two sided switch, whereby only using one side will turn on and off the circuit (like a pushbutton). The other side will control something else.

I have a Targa top switch wired to operate my garage door opener. One side opens closes the garage door. On Targas one side opens and the other closes the top.

I meant to put the other garage door on the other side of the switch, but a small current leak in the second garage door opener remote killed that plan.

I have another remote, but I lost enthusiasm after modifying two remotes to run off the Box's 12VDC and one failed. Someday.

[TimAustinW]

Suncoast sells these switches. They have


-garage door
-exhaust
-heated seat
-window
-footwell lighting
-spoiler

scroll toward the bottom


I installed the Radio Shack hack button first a couple years ago and it just looked like a hack. So I bought the one from Suncoast and rigged it to my garage door opener with a little soldering. I haven't rigged the spoiler switch yet. Anyway, nice way to swap the switch plugs

[Viper5]

Is that black connector that you have the 2 orange wires going into included as well?

[Frodo]

Quote:

"Suncoast sells these switches. They have...garage door (etc.)"

Posted by TimAustinW.

How difficult and time consuming was it to: 1) get the console apart to get access to the switches, and 2) figure out/accomplish the soldering?

(ie, can a dummy like me figure it out? )