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I have a 1950 series 2372. I'm putting in new wiring harnesses and I neglected to note the attachments to the headlight switch 2 years ago when I pulled the old harness out. The switch appears to have a circuit breaker on it with 2 posts, and then also 2 sockets and 1 screw contact on the switch. Which contact gets the tail light wire, the parking light wire, the power wire, and the wire coming from the dimmer switch? Any direction to a wiring diagram would be forever appreciated!

The power connection is the upper terminal on the circuit breaker, tail light the screw connection, park light the middle bullet socket and headlight the upper bullet socket.

The factory wiring diagram can be found under wire diagrams on this site.

G'day Nimrodhaas,
to PackardInfo. I invite you to include your '50 Super Deluxe Eight Touring Sedan in the Packard Owners Registry.

While you're working on that another thing you might want to look into is adding a relay to drive your headlights straight off the battery and use you switch to control the power from the battery vs. running the power from the battery to the switch and then to the headlights. See link below.

https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19699&forum=2&post_id=194516#forumpost194516

Wes

Here is a direct link to the 49-50 23rd series wiring diagram.https://www.packardinfo.com/xoops/html/downloads/wirediagrams/49-50%2023rd%20Series.pdf and an excerpt from the diagram showing the headlight switch. B is Battery, P is parking, T for taillight and L for the Headlight feed wire going to the dimmer sw.

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Thanks to all- I'll install a headlight relay and register the car.

Nimrodhaas for including your '50 Super Deluxe Eight Touring Sedan in the Packard Owners's Registry.