3 Position Switch

[JGBimle]

Hey all,

I just got a couple Rigid Industries three position switches. I have my high beams replaced with a set of dualies and currently they are wired via a relay and the relay is triggered by a splice of the factory high beam wire so they come on just as the high beams normally would.

What I'd like to do is use this switch so the top position will trigger the lights on, the middle position to allow the lights to come on triggered by the factory high beams as they do now, and when I have the switch down I simply the want the lights to be off and remain off.

Here is the link to the switch I am running,

http://www.rigidindustries.com/installation-accessories/40181

I've been having a hard time finding information on wiring up a three position switch like this.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[darthdzl]

In most three-position switches, center is "off" and that's not really changeable.

EDIT: Ignore what I wrote before. I had missed the URL to the switch.

It's got six terminals. I could be wrong, but it's most likely a DPDT, meaning that it's acting as if it two separate switches. That means treat each side (left or right) like its own switch.

The upper one of each pair is the "up hot", the center of each pair is the common ground, and he lower of each pair is the "down hot".

I would hope that the two sides are not connected to each other, but if you're hooking up just the two functions, you should only need one side anyway (left or right).

So, you could make "up" on and "down" auto (or vice versa), with center being "off". As far as I know, there it no way to change this; the switch's center position will be hardwired as "off".

Check with Rigid to be sure. If those two sides are connected to each other, then hooking up two sets of lights and expecting them to do the right thing could prove costly. But I believe I'm right.