Switches

whislt the hunt for the water leak has been ongoing, in the mean time i have been working on the dash and electrics, now as i have a carbon dash this will not pass the IVA due to the radius being to small on the lower edge, so to get round this i have made myself a dash out of ally which i am going to foam pad and cover in vinyl to get me through,

Now as i am using a carbon / standard style dash i am not able to make use of the original mazda switch gear, which gives me the task of relocating all the switches with some thing else, now i had decided a while ago that i was going to use the savage stainless steel illuminated switches, so these have arrived and i have now set about sorting out the loom to make all of these work, currently they are all illuminated and this weekend i am setting about making them work,
now these switches are very small but reading in a few places it seems they are rated to 10amps, which means in theory i could wire all of the lights etc directly into the switches as the maximum draw the lights pull is about 9amps, but i have decided to be on the safe side and run relays for every thing for peace of mind.

again for the IVA i haven't used the savage switches for either the rear fog light, or the wipers, as the fog light switch has no real way of being able to distinguish when the fog is switched on, so for this i am using a plain switch with an led in to show when the fog light is switched on, and the wiper switch only has an on or off position, i would need to wire in some sort of toggle switch to be able to select the 2 speeds needed, so to save me doing this i bought a cheap wiper switch with 2 positions for 2 speeds.