Rotary Switch...Anyone know where this switch is sold?

[badazz81z28]

Went bad in me 5 minutes of use...can’t find it or similar online.

[dhutton]

Similar switches are readily available. Four terminals: power, low, high and park.

Google wiper rotary switch.

Don

[badazz81z28]

Don, I googled it and didn’t come up with something similar...can you point me? It’s a 7 position switch.

[dhutton]

Don, I googled it and didn’t come up with something similar...can you point me? It’s a 7 position switch.

Sorry I thought it was a simple hi lo park switch. Looking closer it has a printed circuit board on the back of the switch so custom. You will need to go to the wiper system manufacturer.

Don

[badazz81z28]

Anyone know the pinout of the connector? Im trying to figure out how this switch makes the delay work.

[cpd004]

If you get desperate, maybe try the delay switch from New Port Engineering. I believe there's is a 6 wire switch with one being for a washer and the other ground. Should be wired as power, high, low and park. Who's wiper system do you currently have?

[badazz81z28]

It’s Detroit Speeds

[ween]

Appears to be from an older Detroit Speed wiper motor kit, which uses a GM wiper motor. Electronics in the motor assembly performed delay function. Switching various resistances onto an input lead changed delay time. High speed activated a relay. Newer switches have a wash function, wiper motor is from GM also. Don't believe newer switch is compatible with 'old style' motor.

[badazz81z28]

It is from their old kit, but I just bought it brand new from NPD. I hope DSE has one sitting in a drawer or someone around has a broken kit I can salvage the switch. Hopefully if it’s not avail, the new switch does work.

[dhutton]

Are you sure the switch is bad? DSE stopped using that setup because of a connection that was failing in the wiper motor.

Don

[badazz81z28]

Are you sure the switch is bad? DSE stopped using that setup because of a connection that was failing in the wiper motor.

Don

I can bypass the switch and the motor works. Trying to test the switch for continuity in all positions and none of them give me a reading. If the switch was working I assume I would at least have high and low...I would think.

[dhutton]

When you are testing this is the switch grounded? Just a thought....

Don

[badazz81z28]

When you are testing this is the switch grounded? Just a thought....

Don

Grounded? What do you mean? I’m testing continuity.

[dhutton]

Grounded? What do you mean? I’m testing continuity.

I assumed incorrectly that you were bench testing it with power. Switch would be grounded in the car, not sure if it makes a difference.

What are you testing continuity with? An ohmmeter? What scale?

So it worked and then died? In the car?

Don

[badazz81z28]

Yeah, I was adjusting the sweep of the wiper arms and they simply stopped and parked. The switch would do nothing after that. I’m using a common multi-meter. I figured there could be a problem with the circuits in the motor, but if that was the case, I should have been able to turn the wipers on low or high, but can’t. With the switch in high or low, I should have continuity from the power input pole to the switch wire pole, but nothing. If I simply bypass the switch at connect the wires, the motor runs. So I don’t have continuity through this switch, unless I’m totally missing something.

[ween]

How many positions on the wiper motor connector, and how many wires used?..colors?

[badazz81z28]

How many positions on the wiper motor connector, and how many wires used?..colors?

4 wires, 7 total positions. Orange (power), green, blue, and white dotted black.

[XLexusTech]

https://www.alliedelec.com/product/g...B&gclsrc=aw.ds

[badazz81z28]

https://www.alliedelec.com/product/g...B&gclsrc=aw.ds

i think I found the source of the actual rotary switch, but no wiper board. So this is a custom piece from Detroit Speed, or they contracted it out? U

[XLexusTech]

i think I found the source of the actual rotary switch, but no wiper board. So this is a custom piece from Detroit Speed, or they contracted it out? U

They outsource