Parking Brake Light?

thekidb · Mar 15, 2020

gdrew said:
Great, thanks!

thekidb said:
I'll check and report back.

The unused switch is there on my 2800h.

gdrew · Mar 15, 2020

thekidb said:
The unused switch is there on my 2800h.

Thanks for the follow-up! Stay tuned and hopefully I'll be able to report back that I got my dashboard light working. If I can't get the dash light working I'll wire in an aftermarket light or beeper or both.

gdrew · Mar 15, 2020

ptsg said:
I am bit confused now. From the diagram, it looks like the parking brake light already have the positive and all it takes is a wire from A12 to the switch for the ground. But on the pin-out diagram, there is a pin for the parking brake light positive.

At first, I thought all it needed, was a wire from A12 to the switch to ground the circuit.

Well, my apologies to you pstg. I think I now understand your confusion and its entirely my fault. I was looking at my wiring plugin up side down from the diagram you provided. The YG (A1) and RW (A2) wires are for the right turn and high beam respectively. The A11 & A12 don't have any wires running to them which makes more sense considering many tractors didn't come with the brake light option.

Anyway, I found a switched hot in the fuse box and ran a wire up to the dash along with the switched parking brake negative wire and did "make shift" connections into the dash plug...results below...

ptsg · Mar 15, 2020

Would you look at that? Nice!! And it was very simple as well. Great stuff gdrew!

You're kinda encouraging me to go on the hunt and put the 4x4 light working, if my dash does have that light. Which would need a switch to be installed the lever, no big deal though.

gdrew · Mar 15, 2020

For me, the inspiration to continue to try to solve problems comes from people like you ptsg. I would have given up if you hadn't provided those schematics, thanks again!

Yes, the 4x4 light would be another good one to tackle...hummm.

LouNY · Mar 15, 2020

Your both doing good work

gdrew · Mar 16, 2020

LouNY said:
Your both doing good work

Thank you!

ptsg · Mar 18, 2020

Took the covers around the dash off, figured out the right pin on the plug, confirmed with the multi-meter that it needed indeed a Positive wire, rigged a wire from the pin to a 12V source and Bam! Smoke all over the place.

Joking, got the green 4WD light working!

Now, on this quarantine times we'll have ahead, I'll find a sealed switch, build a bracket for it and do a proper wiring job. I do need to find a 12V source that works with the ignition. The fuse-box does have some spare spots but I don't have the right terminal to put it there.

K5lwq · Mar 18, 2020

That magic smoke is always fun to make appear!! :shocked:

Nice work guys!

gdrew · Mar 18, 2020

Seeing green, now I'm jealous!!! I'm going to look into seeing if I can get the 4WD indicator working too. Let us know ptsg if and where you find the right terminal for the fuse-box, and I would also like to know what "they" use to connect the wires into the back of the instrument cluster. I jerry-rigged mine so expecting a smoke show at anytime, looking for a good place to mount a fire extinguisher lol!