I was recently motivated by a “new products” advert from carbuilder solutions, where they offer a range of double pole push button stainless steel switches, with different motifs. (Part No. SSPB) This has both normally open and normally closed contacts together with RGB LEDs which can be configured to give a selection of different colours to light up the button. They are 24.5mm diameter and fit through a 22mm hole, so I would think they would fit pretty well into the standard Morgan dash plate. That would save making up switch plates as Rog did. Note: the 160mm switch tails are colour coded and come readily installed with resistors for the LEDs. I have shown the white tail as a black dotted line for clarity. Being double pole, it also enables the reduction of one relay. These switches can also be used for the fog, demist, spot light etc functions too as they are rated at 20 amps.
Some options here and here, and definitely a more elegant solution Doug. Neat
No bezels to worry about either so I would of thought that they might work well if replacing the older style rectangular PCB on a pre-2007 car, they have less space around the switch.
The original EOA switch
The second alternative looked a bit better as they had simple spade terminals rather than pre fixed tails BUT…I have questioned carbuilder about ratings and must say, received excellent rapid replies. The new product stainless steel ones that I first suggested in my version (SSPB) are confirmed as rated at 20 amps. However, the second type mentioned in Rog’s posting above (natural billet aluminium switch PBHA2L) are only rated at 6 amps so without an extra relay, are unlikely to handle the current directly. Same would go with demist function as well, I would think, though not sure as to exactly how many watts that takes. For mine, I am now letting sleeping dogs lie but if or when the pcb fails, think it could all be sorted over a weekend. It’s not as if any pcb failure is going to leave me immobile as it’s just ancillary functions that you can live without… until MOT time.
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