front and rear strobes

like to see different applications from positive and negative systems, to be able to use relays to turn you front and rear tail light systems in to strobe (wanna be) lights.

thanks,

soundpressure

i know they won't be true strobes unless you add the real deal, but at least switch back and forth from one head lamp to the other. for an example i've seen the equipment. all it is, is 2 relays possibly with a couple of diodes. the only thing is that the relays come molded together so you don't know the actuall hook up to your head light system. check out www.galls.com/service/techsupport.jsp the two model numbers for my 96 pontiac bonniville for the front is b-fs037, and for the rear is b-fs027. now this front relay hook up is a multi-pattern flasher which is two flashes per side then both head lights on and off and back to the two flashes per side. you can see the actuall flash pattern in that website. it's nice to order things but when you can make the same item for much less than that it would be nice.

thanks

OHH FORGOT TO ADD THAT I HAVE DAY LIGHT RUNNING HEAD LIGHTS

THANKS

DOES ANYONE KNOW THE HOOK UP ON THE RELAY'S FOR THE HIGH BEAMS TO WIG-WAG AND DO A MULTI PATTERN FLASH, AS IN THE ABOVE WEBSITE.

THANKS

Hey Sound Pressure...I have a simple wig-wag flasher that i bout some time ago...i have it wired to the highbams with a diode at each light. Problem is ... it keeps blowing a fuse. My car (92 GEO Storm) also has daytime running lights. I was told to remove a lighting relay and it still blows a fuse. when they are hooked up, i must have my headlights off and in the highbeam position and they work just fine. But when i turn on the headlights in high or low, pop goes a fuse...then the highbeams are at 50% and on with the lowbeams. Really wierd and i have no idea how to fix it other than getting a different wig-wag.

If anyone does know how to get this done with relays please let us know.

thanks

Les

Hi Sound Pressure, if you can get one flasher to turn on and off to activate the coil of one relay to switch between two additional relays and flashers to make each side flash at least twice before flashing the other side it should work. If I have some time, I'll try to construct one and post the diagram here.

the12volt

Hey guys,

I just made my own headlight and taillight flashers for my 96 Ford Ranger.

I used a simple turn signal flasher and a relay to control both the taillight and backup lights and the two high beams.  I included a master switch which will turn on the taillights and then a second switch to include the headlights all on the same circut.  Works great.  Made two modules (boxes)....one to house the swtiches, LED, and main circut board and another to house another circut board for the diodes for my taillights and backup lights.

I will send in the pics, the diagrams, and the parts list here soon.  I'm sure someone would like them cause I spent a LONG time figuring this out........ 

I used a turn signal flasher with a bulb outage indicator so the speed of the lights would not be slow.  I modified the flasher unit so it included both a normally closed and normally open circut (REALLY SIMPLE....ONE WIRE FIX) so I DID NOT NEED A RELAY.   The only reason I have a relay in the circut is for my  normal High beam operation.

Again, hope this helps....

sparkyssb...

I know i would really apprecate pics, diagrams and parts list....i would love to do this to my car.

Couple for questions about it though...will it work with daytime running lights? Were diodes used for the high beams?

Looking forward to looking at what you have created and then attempting it myself.

Les

Les,

Well, I guess it WOULDN'T work with daytime running lights if the lights are turned off when the highbeams are engaged, BUT, it wouldn't be hard to wire in another relay so the running lights will turn off when power is applied to the circut, if that is all that is required.

If someone can tell me how daytime lights work, like how they are connected, I will probably be able to include an addition to the diagrams...

Yes, I had to use one diode for the high beams, four diodes for the taillights and backup lights.

The circut I made does not do anything fancy like blink twice on each side.  It does the standard wig-wag.  (The whole cost was around $40.00 in parts)

Please let me know how daytime running lights work and I'll think of something...