dinowal... Thanks for confirming my suspicions. My reed switch only activates when the steel sleeve is at the bottom of the reed switch, not centered on the reed switch as per the instructions. So I suspect that one can either remove some of the steel sleeve or mount the reed switch as high as possible under the armrest to achieve this relative positioning. The stock mounting clamp seems to mount the reed switch too low to trigger the reed switch.
As an experiment I removed the rubber sleeve from the upper portion of the mounting clamp. I trimmed a portion of the removed rubber sleeve and placed this trimmed piece of rubber under the remaining rubber sleeve on the bottom of the mounting clamp. This maintained the excellent mechanical grip of the mounting clamp on the reed switch and placed the reed switch higher, close to the bottom of the arm rest. If I exercise the magnetic plunger down and up one full cycle, this will trigger the reed switch.
Jeff
Edit: On the left side, I had to remove the full 1/8 inch of steel tubing as allowed in the plans to get the reed switch to trigger, even with the reed switch mounted as close to the underside of the arm rest as possible using the included hardware. On the right side I removed 1/32 of an inch of steel tubing. Getting the tiny snap bushings in place and passing the wires through the snap bushings was not fun.
Last edited by Gandalf : 05-06-2015 at 10:01 PM.
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