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08-06-2008, 07:01 AM
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Pod Lights: Make them just running lights or signals too?
I have ordered the stuff to do the Pod Light Mod and am planning on getting amber LEDs but I can't decide if I should wire them to just be running lights or signals as well.
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08-06-2008, 08:02 AM
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Re: Pod Lights: Make them just running lights or signals too?
You can never give cagers too much information as to your whereabouts or when and where you are turning... safety first!!!!!
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08-06-2008, 08:55 AM
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Re: Pod Lights: Make them just running lights or signals too?
My eventual plan is to make them running lights that turn off when the turn signals are activated so the light goes back and forth to attract more attention.
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08-06-2008, 09:17 AM
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Re: Pod Lights: Make them just running lights or signals too?
I like the alternating flash idea the best... double the signal!
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08-06-2008, 09:36 AM
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Re: Pod Lights: Make them just running lights or signals too?
Are there any postings on how to do that yet? Mechanical I can deal with... electrical not so much
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08-06-2008, 12:04 PM
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Re: Pod Lights: Make them just running lights or signals too?
It's trivial to make the pod lights blink. You just connect the plus connection to the wire driving the running lights and the minus connection to the wire driving the turn signal. That is, there is no connection to ground.
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Re: Pod Lights: Make them just running lights or signals too?
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I meant was there a post on how to make them alternate (for example a left turn) so as to have the left signal blink then the left pod light then the left signal.... Last edited by necrotimus; 08-06-2008 at 03:15 PM.. |
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08-06-2008, 03:14 PM
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Re: Pod Lights: Make them just running lights or signals too?
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VWSandman's POD LED's (read the entire thing and the linked references as his install has excesses that you don't really need) Last edited by necrotimus; 08-06-2008 at 03:18 PM.. |
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Re: Pod Lights: Make them just running lights or signals too?
That is exactly what happens when you wire them as I suggested. When the left signal "blinks", that wire will be at the same voltage level as the running lights, so that the pod light quits burning... until the blink is over.
For the record, I've been running blue pod lights wired this way for about three years and haven't been stopped yet. Quote:
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