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Re: Wipers what each pin does
« Reply #60 on: November 06, 2025, 10:09:10 PM »
Hi

6 pin relay arrived and pin construction very different. So have modified the board to suit and ordered 5 boards Monday evening, as before they shipped from China Wednesday and should be with me Friday. Still cannot get over cost/timescale of this, wish it was around 25 years ago when I was producing prototype and production boards for projects. The costs then were 10x to get prototypes what I am paying now......

So next week hope to have a board built and tested ready to try out in the Spider.

Peter
Beta Spyder S2 pre F/L 1600
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Re: Wipers what each pin does
« Reply #61 on: November 22, 2025, 08:14:29 PM »
Hi

Finally got my finger out and finished building the board and attaching to relay base. Tried it as both fixed and variable intermittent using the HPE motor out of the car. Now I am happy with it will finish the  small interconnect loom and try in the Spider.

Peter
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Re: Wipers what each pin does
« Reply #62 on: December 23, 2025, 11:36:02 AM »
Hi

Finished the loom and tried it in the Spider and it functions pretty much as expected, but noticed that I still need to tweak the fixed resistor values as on minimum delay it was not coming to an abrupt halt which means my min timing period is too short. However pretty happy with it and now working on a suitable knob for the  aria le resistor.

Peter
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Re: Wipers what each pin does
« Reply #63 on: December 23, 2025, 01:14:38 PM »
I made up this (well the previous owner did - but it did not work properly) on a RS pin board and stuffed it into a cassette holder and up in the central console. The little VR is mounted discretely on the front of the cubby hole. It works well

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Re: Wipers what each pin does
« Reply #64 on: December 23, 2025, 02:31:49 PM »
Hi Tim

FYI this is the circuit I used which uses the same timer, just detail differences to accommodate the Beta motor and mirror the original 'hot metal bar' relay I had in the Spider.

Peter
Beta Spyder S2 pre F/L 1600
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