Car Window Switch Replacement

**alienjj** · 09-01-2005, 06:00 PM

Im trying to make a screen come up in the back of my car, and i hooked it up to a power window motor, but i've been looking for a power window switch to put on my center console to control it, but all the single power window switches i find are like 30 or more dollars, and on ebay, there mainly all bunched together, no single switches.

So I'm looking for a switch, that I can use instead of an actual window switch. But all I know is that it's a rocker type switch, but all of those, just switch from one side to the other, they don't pop back up like car window switches.

Is there such a switch replacement, and does anyone know where I can find one?

**edikp** · 09-01-2005, 06:04 PM

Try mouser.com. They've got varieties of switches.

**paran0id** · 09-01-2005, 08:10 PM

Don't know what it's actually called in english but in Sweden it's called unistabil or monostabil.
Would guess it would translate into unistable/monostable. It comes in different versions
(on)-off / (on)-off-(on) / (off)-on / (off)-on-(off). Where the one in paranthesis (sp?)
is when the button is pushed, which then reverts back to its original position..
If you're using a power window motor, then you problably would want the possibility of
moving the screen down after hoisting it up. Thus a (on)-off-(on) switch would be perfect.

Cheers
/p

**MGD** · 09-02-2005, 10:31 AM

You have to use a double pole double through with center OFF, Like those.

And here is the Wireing.

**alienjj** · 09-04-2005, 01:35 AM

MGD, do those revert back to the center, like paran0id mentioned?

**Peoples** · 09-04-2005, 01:43 AM

is paranoid talking about a momentary switch?

**scott_fx** · 09-04-2005, 01:45 AM

you're looking for momentary switches. but why would you want to hold and press a button while the monitor rises?

why dont you consider using a togle switch with a micro switch that will cut power when the monitor when it reaches its predetermined height? and then another switch at the bottom the monitors travel.

**DjDrewDigital** · 09-04-2005, 03:03 AM

http://www.4x4mods.com/

**Silentbob343** · 09-04-2005, 03:03 PM

junkyard and start ripping apart car doors

**alienjj** · 09-05-2005, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by scott_fx

you're looking for momentary switches. but why would you want to hold and press a button while the monitor rises?

why dont you consider using a togle switch with a micro switch that will cut power when the monitor when it reaches its predetermined height? and then another switch at the bottom the monitors travel.

I thought about that, and that's why I went with the window switch. I also got one of those power window modules, that allows for one-touch open and closing of windows. So i just push down once and it goes down, then i push up once, and it goes back up. but I still need a replacement for window switches because there rediculously expensive, and there has to be a normal switch that does that same thing.