Can anyone please recommend a decent source of the above switch? Is the Lucas version as good as it get?
TIA
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Instrument Toggle Switch 65SA/SPB200
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Put that number in Google SPB200 and you'll get a good idea, a man after my own heart, and at the risk of appearing pompous I wouldn't buy anything else than lucas. I just shop around for the stuff I want and whoever comes up cheapest gets the job,
I'd rather have the Durite version of one of those, unless I could source a NOS.
They can be hit and miss on the cheaper repros though, with the terminals wobbling loose as soon as you touch them!
They can be hit and miss on the cheaper repros though, with the terminals wobbling loose as soon as you touch them!
I wont disagree Durite do do some belting stuff
The Lucas are made in China (could be good quality, could be bad) but at the price they are, how much do you reckon they cost to manufacture, how many corners were cut, and how long will they last?
Dig deep, forgo 5 pints in the pub and buy this NOS Lucas, when Lucas were built to last.
Nice find! I think my existing one is Lucas and it doesn't exude quality. Ordered from John Richards - thanks @ericbeaumont!The Lucas are made in China (could be good quality, could be bad) but at the price they are, how much do you reckon they cost to manufacture, how many corners were cut, and how long will they last?
Dig deep, forgo 5 pints in the pub and buy this NOS Lucas, when Lucas were built to last.
Dash light switch?
Yes that was its original purpose. I rewired mine so that the dash lights come on with the headlights. I now use the switch to turn on my interior light
This being sober in order to afford overly expensive Land Rover parts is not all it's cracked up to be!
I can't believe you wired past the switch.
What will you do when, out driving at night, you are dazzled by the bright hues of the gauges constantly glaring in your face?
Seriously though, I hope you swapped the switch for a fuse!
Joseph Lucas wasn't known as the "Prince of Darkness" for nothing y'know
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Those replacement switches are not load rated. You need to use it to trigger the ground of a relay or it'll be short lived. I'd buy some other aftermarket 20A or better rated switch! Look at aftermarket headlight switches, or Lucas pre-orange packaging (red box w/wax paper).
The ones I use are rated at 5A. Should be more than enough for gauge lights or an interior light.
People using them for other things...might not be a great idea without a relay indeed.
People using them for other things...might not be a great idea without a relay indeed.
Thanks, it’s not being used for headlights, it’s switching an interior light.
Mine has had the same treatment at some stage in the past, dash lights are with the headlights, but no interior light (way too fancy for me!!). Dash light switch does nothing.Yes that was its original purpose. I rewired mine so that the dash lights come on with the headlights. I now use the switch to turn on my interior light
Get it wired up fella!
What to? Haha. I have no heater, washers, spotlights, work light, interior lights, hazard lights, nor any really need for them, it's a very basic vehicle
I did think about wiring it as "secret" security switch, but it wouldn't handle the current and I don't know what I'm doing with electrics am terrified to disturb the rats next of wiring and barely contained smoke behind the dash...
You could earth the coil out via the switch. It would take little load that way but immobilise the vehicle completely until turned off.
Thanks, sounds like a good idea. Might get someone to help me implement that. Current security system is take the rotor arm out if I'm worried.
I’ve got my coil via a switch (+ve) but I used an aftermarket switch after the Lucas one failed intermittently - took me a while to work that out
