Re: Programmable intermittent relay: what's wrong?

[Andrew Duane USG <duane@hunch.zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Chris Newbold say:

> I bought two of those programmable relays, 1HM 955 531 B, for my 1993 90
> and for my wife's Golf... I've tried both of them on the Audi and was unable
> to set the interval with either one: it always swept at 5sec. All the other
> "functions" worked fine, though: low & high speed, wash, etc.
> 
> If I understand, the correct procedure is to switch on the wipers to
> intermittent, let them sweep once, turn off, and then turn back on to
> intermittent at the desired interval...
> 
> I'm going to try them on the Golf to see if one will work there, but I doubt
> it will. There are only six pins, and as far as I can tell, they're all
> needed for the basic operations, so I doubt the problem is an
> "incompatibility" with the Audi wiring...

They've worked in all 3 of my Audis, no problem. But I got the
"A" part, not the "B". I understand they are up to "C" now.
I don't know what the difference is, though.

You have the procedure correct. It should work. One thing is to
make SURE they are in face "B" parts (look at the RELAY, not the BAG.
BTDT).

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