Switched live on brake switch?

[Stridey]

im trying to find the’switched live’ on brake switch. I’ve put multilingual meter on the switch by the pedal but can’t find a switched live.

1995 Crossflow.... any clues?

[Jonathan Kay]

Fuse OK?

What colours are the wires at the switch?

"Standard" wiring colours... and let me know if you'd like the appropriate wiring diagram.

Jonathan

PS: Who's going to start the multilingual electrical jokes? :-)

[JNC]

Ignition live ? 

[Stridey]

Everything is as normal. 

The new beeper module I bought for the indicators has an extra wire, so that if brakes are on it doesn’t beep. This needs to be wired into brake live wire. 

I tried both sides of the white plunger switch at the pedal, but that didn’t cancel the beeper. I also tried direct to the brake lights at the fuse box.

 

[Jonathan Kay]

I'd test the new module with an arbitrary known good live feed to check that it does suppress.

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Where are the two probes when you're testing the wires at the switch, and which range setting on the multimeter? Does it reliably identify other live circuits?

Jonathan

[Stridey]

Being impatient and thinking fault was with the beeper wiring I thought about it a while and fitted a micro switch operated by brake pedal in tandem with brake light switch. This I wired to the buzzer itself. So if I press brake pedal the buzzer is silenced. 

This might be a simple mod to those with beepers as standard, who either think it’s too loud or annoying at lights.