AbnormalWrench
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So the front turn signals were pretty dang obvious while watching the build video, and I'm sure like most people, I skipped that part of the video where they installed the US legal turn signals on the front and kept the integrated turn single lights.
However I did not catch the tiny brake light and turn signals in the rear and thought I had no choice but to install the hideous rear turn signals/brake lights. It wasn't until today, when I was playing with options on rewiring things to get rid of those dumb things, I noticed if you don't connect the ugly things, the integrated brake light and turn signals start functioning.
I really wish they were brighter though. I did play with the outputs to the US rear lights. There are 4 wires, they separated the ground, running lights, turn signals and brake lights. However the brake light circuit seems overly sensitive to load, for some reason. I wouldn't mind adding some extra lights to help give some more attention to people behind me, but the light I care the most about, the brake lights, got upset over a 1 amp LED and shut down the circuit. The same load on the running light circuit and turn signal circuit, didn't bother it. Kind of weird that the brake light circuit and only that circuit, is so hyper sensitive.
For now, I'm going to leave it alone and use the integrated lights. I don't know if it will eventually reset or if you have to have it remotely reset. But for anyone else interested in playing with those circuits, be very careful.
However I did not catch the tiny brake light and turn signals in the rear and thought I had no choice but to install the hideous rear turn signals/brake lights. It wasn't until today, when I was playing with options on rewiring things to get rid of those dumb things, I noticed if you don't connect the ugly things, the integrated brake light and turn signals start functioning.
I really wish they were brighter though. I did play with the outputs to the US rear lights. There are 4 wires, they separated the ground, running lights, turn signals and brake lights. However the brake light circuit seems overly sensitive to load, for some reason. I wouldn't mind adding some extra lights to help give some more attention to people behind me, but the light I care the most about, the brake lights, got upset over a 1 amp LED and shut down the circuit. The same load on the running light circuit and turn signal circuit, didn't bother it. Kind of weird that the brake light circuit and only that circuit, is so hyper sensitive.
For now, I'm going to leave it alone and use the integrated lights. I don't know if it will eventually reset or if you have to have it remotely reset. But for anyone else interested in playing with those circuits, be very careful.
