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Monday, May 13, 2013

When in doubt, REWIRE IT!


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This week in Todd's Garage I decided to rewire part of the electrical system to reduce the amperage flow through the ignition key switch.  After a drive, I would notice notice the ignition key would be hot when shutting off the car, in the past this heat has deformed an internal plastic part of the switch and caused it to fail.  What I did to avoid this problem is I took the main electrical supply wire after the switch and instead of it powering up the Honda fuse block, made it turn on a relay switch.  That way the main load flows through the relay and not the more expensive, difficult to swap and harder to acquire ignition switch.  If the relay does fail, it can be changed on the fly in just a few seconds with a spare.
Other than that, I have just been putting more miles on the car due to the PNW having some fantastic weather.




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