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Old 21st October 2014, 01:05 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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A bit of progress at last, proof of concept!
I bought a microswitch from China on eBay that has 3 wires so can be NC or NO. Tested it to see if it works and which wire is which (NO documentation!).
It's sort of cylindrical (*2) about an inch long, presumably designed to pop into drilled holes in wooden doors and frames, and works fine.

I fished at the car wiring and managed to get some string round it to pull it up, though it's fairly short so won't come up past the handbrake. Luckily it has standard 6.3mm spade (female) connectors so I managed to extend it with some short wires pre-terminated with male spade connectors that I pushed in using a variety of tools to hold, manipulate and push just beyond finger reach.

Then I connected the microswitch to the wiring and turned the ignition on. Handbrake warning light appears!
Move the magnet within about 1cm and the light goes out.

Now I just need to work out exactly how to mount it.
I think the switch will be bracketed onto the rubber stop below the handbrake and the magnet will go inside the plastic handbrake cover, so that when the handbrake is off it's close to the switch, but when pulled on is lifted away.
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