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Re: Broken down ST - update



Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> At 10:59 AM 6/24/2000 +0100, Jim Gillespie wrote:
>> 
>> The relay in which I'm interested has thin white with red and, er,
>> dark grey wires leading to the starter button, and two thick green
>> with yellow wires which disappear I know not where.

> This sounds like the headlight cutout relay, which kills the headlights
> when the starter button is depressed to maximize battery voltage at
> starting. [...]

    Bingo!  That would explain why the relay *opens* a circuit when the
starter button is pushed.  I'd wondered how they did that...

    Thanks again,

                Jim
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