I'm glad you got it working.
Personally I don't understand the motivation behind it, but we're all tinkers and sometimes the curiosity gets the best of us.
Most people I told of my bus purchase and future plans with it didn't understand why I did it, they weren't exactly surprised because I just do things like that from time to time but many of them were at least puzzled.
I'm glad you decided to rig up the light as a reminder.
Thank You Sir.
In the final version, the light will be on the dash labeled properly and cannot be missed.
If a driver at that point ignores it, it's the same as him going and disabling it and not re-enabling it on his own. I will not be held responsible. The light will be labeled properly and understood.
The reason I did this is because the beeper used by International is so deafening it causes literal pain to my ears. I can tolerate it shortly but I also do not wish to wear out my 30 year old air compressor daily or engine for that matter while idle not moving just to do some repairs in the "Key On" position. You don't even have to crank it, just if the key is "On" it's beeping piercing my ear drums. it doesn't beep for 10 seconds and stop, it goes forever. For me it's like someone taking a beeper and sticking it directly in your ear on volume level 1000. For doubters, this is not in question it's really that bad for my ears, I literally cannot stand it to the point that I will do this modification. My actions are a direct result of lack of care put forth by International.
In fact, on newer International models you can actually disable it temporarily for diagnostic or repair purposes by pushing in a rocker switch, and holding the dash mile trip counter stick so at some point International realized just how bad this was to add this feature for diagnostics. My model is old and does not have such technology designed into it. I'm only bringing the technology to the 21st century. As I progress and finalize the mod, I'll update this thread, and it will still be safe.
Understand nobody will be driving this bus but me. I have kill switches no one will know about, they won't be able to even turn the bus on without consulting me, so it's not even a matter of other drivers driving the bus and not knowing about the feature (that will be labeled with instructions).
Others are going to disable there buzzer. How many people do it and not say anything? If they are going to do it anyway and put others in harms way, maybe we can at least provide a safer alternative such as a warning light. If others decide to follow in my footsteps, and do this mod that's on them. I've put that in the disclaimer. But at least if they decide to do it, they won't just disable the buzzer all together. I'm at least trying to educate them and providing them a safer alternative where it can be disabled for diagnostics and repair, but be reminded to enable for actual driving which is what the law requires. You guys are failing to see that aspect of it.
