Factory EV Button installed - details

Mines in too!!!

Tosh, Thank you, thank you, thank you again for going to the trouble for this group buy, I feel a bit guilty we didn't all chip in to pay for your button too, just for doing this....I hope there was at least a little bit left over from the Wayne button donations.

Rick,
Your write-up was pretty helpful, couple things still left me a little confused--I think more clarification, including a diagram, of which connections are which is in line...maybe, if you can find it, use that Japanese diagram that Tosh sent us a while back and just relabel it in PS or something in English.

Finally,
I had a heck of a time finding either of the connectors that Tosh or Rick used, and Wayne doesn't have any idea what his were. But, I found something at RadioShack that worked perfectly.

Cat. No. 274-236 6-Conductor Female Molded Nylon Connector with 0.093" crimp terminals

They fit perfectly into the connector plug and they even lock in nicely. Should simplify the process of 'finding' for everyone else since everything can be obtained from RadioShack.
--eva

 

Great Rick,
It'll be a help as there isn't any one place where all 4 pins are clearly labled (one place has 3 of them so it isn't too hard to figure out the 4th one), I found myself checking a couple different sources just to be absolutely certain I wasn't crossing wires.

The only thing I'd suggest is maybe labeling this way:

(1) ILL +, (2) ILL - (ILL ground), (3) EV +, (4) EV - (EV Ground)

Since no where else is the EV ground refered to as EV- in my article and I think we should try to be sure the novice installer isn't confused by differing language.
--evan

BTW, Man is it fun having the genuine button in!! It took me about 20 minutes to construct the harness and about 15 minutes to get it actually installed (remember that I already had the EV button installed so there wasn't an issue of dealing with that, just had to connect the old wires to the new ones.

 

The RadioShack part I used was really about a perfect fit...I see no need for a more expensive harness from Toyota unless you're really compulsive. I can't say with certainty that the Netherlands part is going to be the same, but would expect that it is the same part as made in Japan. It was curious, even though the part is made in Japan, sold in Japan, and presumably marketed to Japanese, the entire label was in English.

There are Toyota part numbers....but thanks to Yahoo's terrible search engine I can't find it right now...I think I printed them off at home, but don't have that right now. Still, I wouldn't waste the money.

 

Gosh, I think we need better terminology for what each thing is...I think Rick is right, the "Housing" technically includes the button, metal connectors, bulb, etc...the main unit for the button. There's a plastic plug that you need the little metal connectors from RS for. There is also a special harness from Toyota that has the metal connectors and some wires and stuff, but it's costly and unnecessary.

Hope that's a little more clear.