Re: Wire Remote Boat Search Light?
Ok - you're reviving brain cells from the dead! I ended up making mine work almost the way you proposed. I believe I had seven wires going to the light. Three were for the bulb, so disregard those, which left four wires. Just to make things simpler, lets just work with two wires, say red and green ( I don't remember what color wire did what, you're going to have to figure that out on yours) that move the light up and down. There is not a separate ground wire to the motors, so you have to provide +12 to red and -12 to green to make the light go up. To go down, you have to reverse it, + 12 to green and -12 to red. To make this work, you need a momentary dpdt switch (6 terminals on back, spring loaded to return to center, off position) Connect your red and green to the center terminals, and +12 to one top and -12 to the other. put a jumper wire from the top left to the bottom right, and another jumper from the top right to the bottom left. The light should now go up and down.
You will need another switch, wired the same way with the remaining two wires to make the light move left/right.
I still think it would be a lot easier to buy the right switch, stick it on, and be done with the whole project.
Mark
