Hi, more older Trabis (and another vehicles) was installed with a foot-switch to turn Abblendlicht on/off. They were heavy duty ones so they were capable to switch 10A with no voltage drops. However, they were huge ones. Imre On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Attila Muhi wrote: > Hi, > > A few years ago, in a summer night, when I was driving the Trabi, I felt = smoke, the characteristic smell of burning plastic, coming from that bistab= le relay. So, for the rest of the night, I could only use "abblendlicht"...= 6 Volts=3Dlots of amps + bad contact =3D smell > > Nowadays they do some cheat with electronic hold circuits, to provide a f= alse bistable relay... At least that old relay was genuine, no fake.... = :-) > > Szia > > Attila - SM4RAN > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Fr=E5n: dr. Imre Bartfai > Till: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Datum: den 8 april 2004 08:26 > =C4mne: Re: [OT:] Trabant > > > Hi, > > you're right. My one was even installed with a contactless ignition syste= m > - a real blessing! Furthermore, I got also a fuel consumption monitor, > with LEDs and even with a photoresistor to tune the LEDs brightness to th= e > environment. Another interesting point: the switching between > inside/outside-city-light ("orsz=E1g=FAti f=E9ny"; I do not know the tech= nical > term exactly) was made by a bistable relay. > > Regards, > Imre > > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Attila Muhi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > http://www.trabant.lap.hu/ > > > > I still have one 601 -71. You don't see many of them here in Sweden. > > > > >I have had one, from 1986 to 1995. Believe or not, the battery was not > > >replaced for those 9 years. > > > > Guess by the year of manufacture that your car had a 12V battery. I hav= e 6V-system with dynamo, and I have to replace the battery every second yea= r... :-( > > > > Regards > > > > Attila - SM4RAN > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu