Interior lights??

[pwrpf01]

Ok. I have had my 5 for almost 3 months now.....Is there a knob or switch that will allow the driver to turn on ALL of the interior lights at once?? My 4 yr old gets upset because she can't reach the ceiling light (and neither can I when driving)

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Thanks.

 

[SuperJETT]

Nope, that's about the only thing we don't like about the car, but luckily our kids are tall enough now to hit the light themselves now.

 

[thaxman]

Well, that and the absence of map lights for the passengers!!!

What is this, 1980!?

 

[skiph]

Well, that and the absence of map lights for the passengers!!!
What is this, 1980!?

No, 2010:

View attachment Interior Lights.pdf

 

[pwrpf01]

Bummer! Thanks folks. I guess this gives my husband 1 thing to really gripe about! (I thought fitting the 55 gallon drum in the back would have won him over! Oh well)

 

[flcruising]

I built a small circuit for this. Installed a momentary push button in one of the blanks on the left side of the steering column & a timer behind there that taps into the dome light wires where the map lights are located. I'll have to do some poking to see if I can find my post about it. Works perfectly.

Here's where I posted about it - http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/show...ee-panel-off&p=5249130&viewfull=1#post5249130

I've since relocated the timer to inside the dash because the summer heat was causing problems with the location at the roof that I had it. I've also rewired it with some transistors so I could eliminated the standby current draw from 1 of the relays. The timer module is a 6062, not 6092 like I had shown. If anyone is interested, I'll redraw the diagram to show you how it works now.

 

[SuperJETT]

I built a small circuit for this. Installed a momentary push button in one of the blanks on the left side of the steering column & a timer behind there that taps into the dome light wires where the map lights are located. I'll have to do some poking to see if I can find my post about it. Works perfectly.

Here's where I posted about it - http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/show...ee-panel-off&p=5249130&viewfull=1#post5249130

I've since relocated the timer to inside the dash because the summer heat was causing problems with the location at the roof that I had it. I've also rewired it with some transistors so I could eliminated the standby current draw from 1 of the relays. The timer module is a 6062, not 6092 like I had shown. If anyone is interested, I'll redraw the diagram to show you how it works now.

I'd love to to see it so I can build my own.

 

[flcruising]

The Altronix 6062 is a timer for a home security system that can be adjustable from something like 60 seconds to 60 minutes. The point of it is to shut off the lights after the set limit so that the dome lights can't be accidentally left on and kill the battery. All components (except the momentary switch) are mounted in some way to the board, either hot glued or super-glued to a mounted component. The 1000uF cap was used because it was what I had already (it gives about 1 second of delay), the SPDT relay is a microrelay, and the 2N3904 transistors are from Radio Shack. Total cost was about $30. The green circuit is the delay off. Holding down the momentary switch charges the capacitor, which then causes the transistors to conduct, grounding the relay and disconnecting power from the timer, this shuts off the lights.