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Old 12-11-2011, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by JHZR2 View Post
I saw a thread like this at BW, but Ill ask it here too.

If your stock relay is OK, could you not diode-protect the 12V source that is switched via the key, and then install a fused, protected 12V source that connects also to the relay? Then we could just use a switch to keep 12V on the relay, to keep current going to the GPs for as long as we want (a mechanical timer switch would be optimal I think).

Or am I oversimplifying it? Seems to me that this would be an optimal, easy setup if the OE relay was working.
Theres probably lots of ways to do it. My goal was to make it simple, I can operate the button with my left hand and turn the key with my right. why use a timer switch, just hold the button longer.
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