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Electrical Chatter / Fire siren project, relay help needed.
I'm a vol. emt and fire fighter, I have two identical sirens that I've been running paralell to each other with a dual throw toggle switch, I need to redo these.  I dont have room for the dual throw switches, theyre too bulky.  so I thought I'd try relays.  what I had in mind was, in the first pic. if they make such a thing, using a dual throw relay.  i'm not sure if this will work.
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In the second set up, running two relays, one after the other, using the coil side of the relays in a bridged set up. power wire into relay 1 pos, thenfrom relay 1 neg. to relay 2 pos. then from relay 2 neg. back to the battery.

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in the third,  I'm illistrating the idea of using one sirent to trigger the relay to start the other siren. 

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what do you guys think would be the easiest, what relays would you reccomend?
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Electrical Tech / 86 bird w/289 wont hold charge????
I'm not sure what kind of alternator it is, it has 3 or 4 post I think, but I run the same alternator in my 79 ford and it only uses 3 or the post, and it works great in it.  Yes, it has an ext. regulator.  I'm not quite sure how to use a multi meter, but I'll have a friend come over and help me with it, thanks for the advice so far, I'm pretty knowlegeless when it comes to this stuff.
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Electrical Tech / 86 bird w/289 wont hold charge????
ok, another question, I've had a few people tell me to "just go get a 2 wire chevy alt. and put on it, that should fix it"  has anyone done this. normaly I say its a sacrelige, to put a chevy part on a ford, but if it works then I'm willing to try it.  Any takers?
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Electrical Tech / 86 bird w/289 wont hold charge????
my bird wont hold a charge, I've put a new alternator in it, with the battery charged up it'll run for a few minutes then die, and wont restart. I think the amp gage is stuck as well, does anyone have any idea what might be the problem???
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Engine Tech / Finally got the transmission in, now for the engine...
Got to drive the bird around the parkinglot today, after a long long time.  I'm sure it needs some sort of fuel treatment, spark plugs, wires, rotor cap, etc. 

anything you guys think I should know about getting an older car thats been sitting a while running correctly?
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Engine Tech / not sure where else to put it - M.P.G. question
my set up is an 85 T-bird turbocoupe, with a 65 289 HIPO/c4 auto implant, and as far as I know a factory rear end, I think its the 7.8 rear, I may be wrong.  it has headers with glass packs, not cat. converter. no a/c but I might put it back on. no power steering but would like to have that back. Other than all that, the car itself is stock.

I'm just curious what a reasonable fuel mileage expectation would be for this car with either a 2br. carb. or a 4 br. carb.

any ideas.