toedtoes wrote:
Griff in Fairbanks wrote:
I keep thinking of things to add after I post things ...
The high-beam/low-beam headlight switch on the floor of most of your motorhomes looks like an ordinary pushbutton switch. However, unlike most "momentary" -- OFF-(ON) -- pushbutton switches, this switch is a "latching" -- ON-ON -- switch.
It can easily be replaced by an ordinary ON-ON toggle or rocker switch on the dash, as they are operationally the same, with the difference being a pushbutton versus a toggle or rocker.
(Never mind the joke about people getting their leg tangled in the steering wheel when trying to "dim" the headlights on new vehicles.)
Switch out the floor button????? But that's HISTORY!!!! :) It's amazing how many people don't know what it is.
Somehow I missed this response, way back when it was posted ...
My wife and I both prefer floor-mounted, push-button dimmer switches. MLP will definitely have one. (I already have the switch in my "things to be done" parts box.)
I think I'll also put a "Dimmer Switch On Floor, Dummy" sticker on the dash for 'kiddies' who aren't used to, or don't know, the old way of doing things.
But, I can't blame them too much ... I think I put dents in the floor pan of a late model truck, stomping around for the dimmer switch before I remembered it was on the turn signal lever.
Likewise, a guy came in the parts store I used to work at, looking for a new turn signal lever for his (beloved) mid-70s pickup truck ... because his son had broken off the old lever trying to dim the headlights.
