E-brake Wiring Issues, Very, very, incredibly weird Options

[Coomer]

Hi,
I am having some weird issues with the e-brake wire on my car. What I want to accomplish is having +12 volts go to a terminal on a relay once the e-brake is released and is down, and the ignition is on. When I tested my '94 Toyota Celica's e-brake wire with a multimeter, it produced +12 volts when it was released and the ignition was on, and didn't when the e-brake was up, or the ignition was off. So I spliced a wire into this e-brake wire, and then I ran the wire to the terminal on my relay, and it produced some strange results.

What happens is that when my e-brake is up and the ignition is on, the brake light on the gauge cluster was lit up like it should be, but when I released the e-brake, the light didn't turn off like it should, and instead only got dimmer. So I figured that I was getting some sort of voltage coming from the relay that was going back into the wire, so I installed a diode in the wire that I spliced into the e-brake wire, but that didn't change anything. So I figured that I must be pulling too much power from the e-brake wire, so it must not be sending a full +12 volts to the car, resulting in the light only being partially lit up. So, I hooked up terminal 85 of a SPDT relay to ground, terminal 86 to the e-brake wire, terminal 30 to a fused +12 volt power source, and terminal 87 to the terminal on the relay that should be getting +12 volts once the e-brake is released. This didn't change anything either though.

So now I am completely confused, and I have no idea why my terminal of my relay isn't getting +12 volts, and why e-brake light stays partially lit up when the e-brake is released and the ignition is on. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I could do to try to solve my problem?

[Coomer]

Ok, that sounds great. Thanks!