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Might I ask how you sent it to that guy back in 2013? If a DM on here then surely the image is still here somewhere. If not, no biggie, I had to ask since they're so damned hard to find it seems.
@Platinum_Sean Dude HUGE thanks. I went looking at your profile and saw you'd been inactive for a couple years so I didn't try asking you. But here you are, much obliged! I am looking for the schematic from switch to (turns/hazards/parking) bulb really.
Yup- wife wanted to move up in the 5th wheel class, ended up with a 37ft (70ft total length with the Seadoo attached), Jayco Eagle series, 12,000lbs, so away went the F One-Fiddy, hello F Two-Fiddy. A totally different beast being taller, diesel, longer bed, ... It was necessary.
The images, I have 9 I think. I could only post 2. If there are other ones needed, just ask, I think I can upload 2 (at a time), each post if you want all that I have.
Hey so for some reason I’m not able to privately message so I’ll just ask you like this.
how did you make your lights on your f150 strobe like they did in the video you have of the clearance lights
would really love a detailed explanation if possible.
thank you!
i recently bought a 2013 f150 and wanted to add cab lights and that strobe feature would be great when i do side jobs pressure cleaning and park on the road side.
Hey so for some reason I’m not able to privately message so I’ll just ask you like this.
how did you make your lights on your f150 strobe like they did in the video you have of the clearance lights.
Hi- if you are installing the cab lights, be sure to wire lights 1, 3, and 5 together, and 2 and 4 together, so that they are on 2 separate lines. The ground/neutral/return, can be the same for all. You HAVE to have them separated.
Then see the diagram attached- adding diodes allows you to light 1 bank of lights and not the other, as the diodes will prevent backfeeding when in ON mode. The relay is added so that when you turn on the strobe function, it opens the feed from the running lights, otherwise, all lights will always be on when the headlights are on- you want to open that cct when the strobe module is on so that the strobe module can do its thing, firing bank 1 then 2, or whatever it is that the pattern selected wants to do. NC is normally closed. A standard 12V, 5A relay is fine there. Diodes are 1N4002 or similar.
Since doing this method, I have evolved somewhat!, and am now using an Arduino, MOSFETs and relays to do strobing things. For example, I have 2 white grill lights up front, each wired back to the arduino on its own lead. These go to a relay board, 1 wire to each relay, the common contacts. When the arduino senses upfitter #2 is on (through a voltage divider so as not to burn up the I/O pin on the arduino which is 5V, the truck is 12V of course), the power is fed through the NC connections back to the common, and the 2 grill lights turn on. Simple. But when upfitter #5 also goes on, the strobe master, the arduino senses that, and starts an on, off/left right pattern, using the NO relay connections and those 2 lights are in a strobe pattern- I think I built it to do L L L, R R R, L L L, R R R, L L L, R R R, L&R, L&R, L&R, repeat. You can do anything here with the arduino. Then when Upfitter #5 turns off, the relays return to the NC mode, and back to normal. If I do hit the strobe master to light all the strobes I have, but do NOT want the fronts to flash, I turn off upfitter 2 so only the rears flash. Rather brilliant I must say. On that same arduino I also use it to open LEDs ccts that I have on the running boards, from parking light mode, to a 12V flash mode, and make them strobe as well when Up #5 is on. This is a much larger conversation, but much cleaner than what I used to do. I have a video of this somewhere. I have plans to go full hog on the truck now that I retired (March 31!!) - the LED C strips, rear cargo lights, reverse lights, ... with the arduino method.
07-09-2013, 01:42 PM
Wiring diagram- looking for HIGH RES version...
