SD1 electric windows and DIY wiring

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SD1 electric windows and DIY wiring

Post by spegru » Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:07 am

My car came without electric windows, so I retrofitted motors from an SD1.
But for the switches I made my own setup using simple buttons from ebay and some reasonably clever relay wiring. I actually used the simplified version with the diodes
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Simple buttons. On for Up one for down each side. The middle button is for the rear hatch release solenoid
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Original idea with lots of relays
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Simplified with a Diode
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SD1 electric windows and DIY wiring

Post by peter freeman » Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:38 am

The original simple circuit has a fuse and switches which don't seem to give lot of trouble so why go to such bother unless you cannot get the original switches now.


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