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Old 14th January 2013, 18:17
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Default Charging Lamp wiring

Hi all, looking for some guidance on wiring up a charging/battery lamp.

The diagrams for the E36 dash have a resistor in parallel with the lamp and then a diode down stream on the battery/run power side. Can anyone tell me what component ratings I need to get. I'm assuming that the diode is anything rated to greater than 14ish Volts but not sure on current as that's dependant on the resistor and lamp. Is just reading the resistance through the lamp enough to tell me to get a resistor of the same ohms plus greater than 14ish Volts?

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Ian
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