Dash lights flash with parking lights

I have and ultrastart 2256m in my 93 trans am. Everything works great, but when I lock, unlock, or anything that makes the parking lights flash, the dash lights also flash. Is there an easy way to prevent these from flashing with the parking lights. Oh, the remote start output is hooked to the parking light wire at the light switch.

Hmm..Keep your dimmer turned all the way down and you shouldn't see them flash. Technically they still would just you wouldn't see them..Anything else would take a little work as the dimmer automatically comes on when the park lights come on..You'd have to find the wire powering the dimmer and break that circuit..Do you have aftermarket indiglo gauges or something that you don't want flashing on and off? Those would be a lot easier to interrupt..Good luck,

Mike

That is what I have been doing. Just keeping the dimmer turned all the way down so that they don't flash. No, it is just the factory gauge lights. So there is no easy way to keep the lights from flashing? If not, its not that big of a deal. Just something that bugs me a little.

assuming you tapped the alarm flash output in to the parking light circuit somewhere between the parking light switch and the parking lights themselves, couldn't you just hook up a diode between the parking light switch and where you tapped the alarm into?

this would prevent the alarm trigger signal from flowing back into the dimmer switch via the parking light switch. harder to explain than to visualize!!

southpawboston wrote:

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assuming you tapped the alarm flash output in to the parking light circuit somewhere between the parking light switch and the parking lights themselves, couldn't you just hook up a diode between the parking light switch and where you tapped the alarm into?

this would prevent the alarm trigger signal from flowing back into the dimmer switch via the parking light switch. harder to explain than to visualize!!

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Then the back (red) parking lights would not work also where are you going to find a diode big enough to handle the parking lights?

P71-cruiser

There is no way around it. On every car the parking lights are linked to the dash lights. This is nothing to worry about . It is supposed to do it. Your best bet is to do what the previously statments from the other members said, turn down the dimmer switch.

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Jeremy

Ok, I guess that is what I will do. It is just somewhat annoying to me, being the type of person I am. Oh well, I'll just do it with the dimmer. Thanks for the help though.

my cavalier does that too, they are supposed to come on.  thats what happens when you turn the switch on.  i guess you use a relay to isolate the wire from the cluster.  that would be a relay youd actually use 87a on.  that way the RS will trigger the relay and run power to just the lights, but when the RS isnt running then the factory functions as normal.  youd need a diode somewhere too. 

Yeah, I thought about doing it that way, but where do you get a 10 amp diode?

The only reason I asked is becuase I don't want the lights in the radio and dash to burn out. I hate trying to replace them. Will this flashing make them burn out faster?

clearman wrote:

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The only reason I asked is becuase I don't want the lights in the radio and dash to burn out. I hate trying to replace them. Will this flashing make them burn out faster?

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Technically speaking yes it will, due to the rapid on-off pulses. During cold seasons this will make the filiments weaken over time, which will then cause them to fatigue, thus breaking.

Realisticly, it will not.


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