A little bit of background, which can be skipped -

 

Since I bought my Zed I've had a big switch on the side of the headlight pod for sidelights / headlights. Apparently the normal turn switch broke and the lights were wired to into this great ugly industrial sized switch inserted into the side of the pod. Later I discovered the lights had been rewired directly from battery, from what I can work out it bypasses the normal relay. I have no permanent main beam on pushing the stalk forward, only 'flash' main beam.

Fog lights don't work either. I thought about playing around with the original wiring, to restore it, but discovered after tracing the wiring back from the pod that some wires had melted and fused (the reason I think the lights were re-wired directly from the battery). I sorted this out with insulation tape the best I could, but figured the original wiring was unusable. I came to the conclusion that I just wanted to wire the new wiring into the correct switch.

 

Background over...

 

 

Today I took apart the headlight pod and then the headlight turn-switch section. I cleaned the contacts and made sure everything was functioning correctly on turning the switch and the contacts were making contact.

 

I'm trying to work out which contacts inside the switch relate to which pins on the rear. See my note below (third pic) -

 

 

 

 

The first two 'main' contacts appear to be the live (main power feed), the second probably being for the sidelights (as they're both connected on the second click of the turn-switch - sidelights), the four 'sub' contacts seem to be for the headlights as they make contact only after the third click of the turn-switch.

 

It looks like contacts 1 and 2 are connected, also separately 3 and 4 too are connected, all on the third click.

 

Does anyone know which pins relate to which contacts? You can see my numbering in the pic above.

 

My dad has my multimeter, but once I have it back it should make things easier.

 

One concern I do have is that the the switch installed in the side of the pod has some fairly heavy wire going to it (15 Amp maybe), the switch itself actually gets hot. I've noticed that the wiring to the original turn-switch is really thin. If I do wire the heavy wiring into the switch I'm concerned it may melt!

Edited August 19, 201114 yr by MasterCookieman

One tip that may help you understand the switch function is for whatever reason Nissan decided to switch the earths not the lives, the outputs to the relays your looking for a therefore switched earths.

 

Jeff TT