[DeTomaso] Pantera LEDs

Asa Jay Laughton asajay at asajay.com
Tue May 19 23:19:11 EDT 2009


Asa Jay
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Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
    
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fresnofinches at aol.com wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Since the white portion of the GT5 two-color signals are running lights, they are both fed by the same wire.
> But so are the rear running lights fed from the same source.
> Thus, if you spliced into that wire and could find the flash feature wire from the stalk, you would be flashing all the running lights.
> You would need to isolate the front bulb wiring from the rear wiring for the flashing feature, but keep them both capable of being lit with the lights on.
> Probably a bit of a PITA needing diodes and/or relays.
>
> BUT, that bulb is only a 5 watt bulb. Anything bigger will, and has, melted the lens.
>
> So flashing a little 5 watt bulb, tucked down below the bumper, would probably be about effective as
> waving a Bic lighter through the windshield.
>
> Now, if you were to install some true running lights, like Carello or Cibie and hook THEM to the flasher feature,
> through a relay, now you would have something that would be visible.
>
> But here in the good ole USA, how many folks have the foggiest notion of what the flashing lights are all about in the first place?
>
> Larry
>
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