{"id":1454,"date":"2013-11-02T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T23:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2013-12-23T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:09:06","slug":"13-99-parking-brake-micro-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/02\/13-99-parking-brake-micro-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"8.1.2 Parking Brake Micro Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"32\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/08-wheels-axles\/\">08 - Wheels \/ Axles<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Since I&#8217;ve installed a parking brake and I have a &#8220;Parking Brake Engaged&#8221; warning light, I need a way to activate the warning light when the parking brake is engaged.<\/p>\n<p>I had been trying to figure out where to mount the switch. But then once the avionics shelf brackets were mounted, it became pretty obvious that was the place.<\/p>\n<p>So first I had to make a mounting bracket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-02-IMG_20131102_140155_031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1455\" alt=\"2013-11-02 IMG_20131102_140155_031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-02-IMG_20131102_140155_031-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then drill a hole in the avionics shelf bracket and mount the bracket and micro switch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-02-IMG_20131102_141155_079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1456\" alt=\"2013-11-02 IMG_20131102_141155_079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-02-IMG_20131102_141155_079-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-02-IMG_20131102_141302_971.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1457\" alt=\"2013-11-02 IMG_20131102_141302_971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-02-IMG_20131102_141302_971-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the parking brake handle is in the &#8220;normal&#8221; position, the switch is open. Pull the handle a bit and the switch closes and the warning light comes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"32\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/08-wheels-axles\/\">08 - Wheels \/ Axles<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Since I&#8217;ve installed a parking brake and I have a &#8220;Parking Brake Engaged&#8221; warning light, I need a way to activate the warning light when the parking brake is engaged. I had been trying to figure out where to mount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/02\/13-99-parking-brake-micro-switch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"series":[32],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","series-08-wheels-axles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}