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Kevinaye
Posted on Friday, September 16, 2011 - 05:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I have been searching archives for a thread about a way to hook up aux lights to the Hi beam "flash" button. Can't seam to find it. Can anybody that has done this mod point me in the right direction?
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Fung
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 09:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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Reepicheep
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 10:12 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

What are you trying to do? If you just want to run aux lights with the high beam, just wire them into the high beam wire. Unless they are too much current and smoke a wire or blow a fuse, that should work great.

If you want the flash to pass light to be re-purposed into an aux light switch, you will have to use it to control some kind of a "flip-flop" that drives a relay. In this day and age, I'd use a microcontroller with a MOSFET, but you could do it either way.

PM me offline if you want me to design and build one for you... come up with something interesting to trade for it.
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