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[subarashii]

Hi can anyone help me out I wish to fit a Maplin wiper delay & wondered if any of you knew how to wire it in.
My mini is a 94 sprite.
Cheers

[Bungle]

don't they come with instructions ?

[subarashii]

Afraid not

[Bungle]

a wiring diagram ?

[subarashii]

They come with nothing at all or at least mine did (just the kit)

[L400RAS]

The Minispares. kit (£50) seems to only go in-line with the existing, so a plug out, then plug in # also requires its own earth but htat easy enough.

Ryan.

[Dan]

Does the Maplin kit use a changeover relay or a plain switching relay to operate the wipers?

[L400RAS]

Just found minitrailers do a kit - sounds VERY similar to the minispares one but only £40, with handy instructions on the site:

Key features
Flick wipe
Variable intermittent flick wipe (2- 20 second delay between wipes)
3 wipes of screen when screen wash activated
Plug and play connectors
No extra switches
The finest kit available

Fitting instructions

1. Disconnect Battery before for starting installation.

2. Locate the 5 way Wiper connector located at the bottom of the steering column.

3. Disconnect and connect the two connectors from the control unit to the two free ends.

4. Connect the Black wire from the control unit to a suitable ground point

5. Reconnect the Battery.

Operating Instructions

1. The slow and fast speed switch positions operate as normal.

2. Momentarily operating the 'Flick Wipe' will give a single slow speed wipe.

3. A second operation of the 'Flick Wipe' will again give a single slow speed wipe and the duration of the delay between the two wipes will be remembered. The unit will continue to give a single wipe after this stored delay until the 'Flick Wipe' (or any other operation) is pressed again.

4. If maximum delay 20 seconds. The sequence is terminated if the delay between 'Flick Wipes' is greater than this.

5. The minimum delay is 2 seconds. Operating the switch faster than this will still only give a 2 second delay.

6. Operating of the Screen Wash will initiate a slow speed wipe for three wipes of the screen.

[Darkscamp]

not sure if its the same as yours but may help. i brought mine from mini trailers http://www.minitrailers.co.uk/ and on there site under electrical is how to wire up their kit. unfortunatly items cant be ordered from this site and they dont sell it anymore from their ebay shop but the phone number is still the same so they might be able to help as i bet its just the maplins one inside the black box

Edited by Darkscamp, 10 February 2009 - 09:02 PM.

[Darkscamp]

this is there ebay shop just incase anyones interested

http://stores.ebay.c...ts-01274-869955

[Git]

Or swap you wiper relay for a Metro one.

That's what Git had... just flick down to start the intermittent wipe, then flip down again to stop it.

[stormintrooper]

out of interest is there a link to the maplins product you bought as im quite competant with electrical wiring and would like to add this feature to my mini

[subarashii]

Thanks for trying to help but none of these products are the same.
Here is a link to the item.

http://www.maplin.co...x?ModuleNo=3182

As you will see it is cheap but well made.
But maybe I will have to change my mind and go for a dearer option.

[tommy13]

The Maplin kit is made by Velleman. You may be able to contact them for a wiring diagram. I also found this but I don't know if it's any use.
http://forums.lr4x4....showtopic=22316

[stormintrooper]

wow 8 connectors, i cannot imagine what on earth you would need all those for

the way i could picture it is, a constant switched live, input from the stalk a ground and an output

hell i could probably design something with a variable resistor just like the one shown including a 555 timer that would do the exact same job...well obviously i would use a small electrical relay on the output from the 555 but in principle it would do the exact same job with only 4 terminals