Help with Relay Circuit, Momentary Switch

[DetoitDevo]

Hello All I am new here today and happy I found this forum, after spending some time searching for an answer in the forum I decided to just post.

I have a new van and we want to wire up our safety strobes to one of the OEM switches we are adding to keep the look/feel stock. This switch is a momentary rocker switch from the factory and I have been told in order to activate the strobes I will need to have a relay that can activate the momentary switch with a latch divide by 2. This is so greek to me and I was hoping someone might want to take me on as a challenge and help solve my problem. I can build and solder but I am not an engineer so any help would be appreciated.

We need to power via 12v the LED Strobe module so I want to press the dash button once to activate and press again to deactivate.

 

[duke37]

It would be easier to have one button to activate a latched relay and another button to unlatch it. Then no electronic circuitry would be needed. Is this adequate?

 

[duke37]

You can also get push button latching switches. One push to go, second push to stop.

 

[Rleo6965]

Can you post picture or link on this " device" .

 

[duke37]

No, I do not know how!

Maplin show three latching push button switches.
N80CL
N73CL
N72CL
Doubtless there are many other places where these can be obtained.

 

[KMoffett]

If you're stuck with the OEM momentary switch, you could try this circuit: http://www.oldradio.com/current/pushon-pushoff.htm I've used it.

Ken