Quick Wiring Question - Strobe Lights

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  1. Caterpillar Cowboy

    Caterpillar Cowboy Heavy Load Member

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    Wanting to install some of the Honda style pedestal lights above the headlights on my W900 B model that I pull my lowboy with. They'll be 3 function lights, that I'd like to have run my marker circuit steady burning with the rest of my marker lights, and be able to choose between running on the turn signal circuit when unloaded and be able to switch to an alternating flash pattern when I'm oversize.

    I'm thinking unless there's some real neat control module out there, I'll need to run back my wiring on the high circuit, red wire, back to a switch in my cab that would need to be an on/on switch (if they make those) or an on/off/on switch to switch between standard turn signal mode and the strobe mode. This should prevent any backfeeding to my fender and mirror turn signals, which I believe that the DOT boys would prefer to operate normally.

    Have I got this thought out right or am I forgetting something?
     
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  3. ExOTR

    ExOTR Windshield Chipper Extraordinaire

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    You could tap into the running lights and turn signals, set the flasher setting to your overheads. A lot of different control units to choose from if you want to bother with integration. My advice? Run a parallel off the turn signals, and have a 3 way dash switch installed. Have setting 1 be parallel, 2 be running lights, 3 be flasher. Benefit to this design is an "easy off" if something goes odd, full integration could potentially have you chasing wiring gremlins.
     
  4. nasriza

    nasriza Road Train Member

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    You can easily eliminate fly back if you use a diode in the signal circuit that will give you the option of having two inputs not effect one another, just got to put the diode in line make sure it's connected the proper way. I've used them a lot in light connections on volvo and it doesn't make any issues.
     
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  5. Caterpillar Cowboy

    Caterpillar Cowboy Heavy Load Member

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    Thought about this a little more today, I think I can do what I'd like to do basically by running a double pole / double throw on-off-on switch backwards.

    As matching the picture having the 2&5 labeled terminals going to the red hot side on my marker lights, the 1&4 terminals going to the respective side's turn signals from the factory wiring, and the 3&6 terminals being the feed for the two side's respective alternating flash pattern controls coming out of the LED strobe module control box. Would also obviously have to have a standard on/off switch to power the LED strobe module.

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