10-04-2012, 08:55 PM
Wiring can be different from year to year, but on mine the rear tail lights are relay driven. That means the load on the flahser will not change no matter what you do to the tail lights.
But I had a problem still - on my coach, believe it or not, the turn signals do not self cancel. You have to remember to cancel them yourself or find them still on miles after your last turn - not a good thing. The flahser on my '99 was located behind a panel in the passenger footwell and I just could not hear it. What to do? I searched around and found a guy that was making custom flahsers with a toner generator built in. I think there were several models to pick from based on the number of lights you were to flash. At that time I hadn't really come to the realization that the rear lights were not actually controlled directly from the flasher and picked a model that in the end didn't work too well as sometimes there was not enough load to make it flash. As a temporary solution I added some resistors in parallel with the coil of the relays and it flashed just fine and beeped loudly enough that I never failed to cancel it.
But, I really was bothered by the resistors and got back with the vendor and he now had a special version for LED lights that would switch regardless of the load, but it was a three terminal device, with the third terminal a pigtail that the user had to connect to ground. I ordered it and plugged it in and connected the ground and it did not work. Turns out it was polarlity sensitive and Newell, according to this guy, did not follow standard DOT practice for how the flahser socket was wired. I just swapped the wires in the socket and it flashes and beeps just perfectly now.
Here is a link to the supplier:
http://www.turnalarm.com/
Russ
But I had a problem still - on my coach, believe it or not, the turn signals do not self cancel. You have to remember to cancel them yourself or find them still on miles after your last turn - not a good thing. The flahser on my '99 was located behind a panel in the passenger footwell and I just could not hear it. What to do? I searched around and found a guy that was making custom flahsers with a toner generator built in. I think there were several models to pick from based on the number of lights you were to flash. At that time I hadn't really come to the realization that the rear lights were not actually controlled directly from the flasher and picked a model that in the end didn't work too well as sometimes there was not enough load to make it flash. As a temporary solution I added some resistors in parallel with the coil of the relays and it flashed just fine and beeped loudly enough that I never failed to cancel it.
But, I really was bothered by the resistors and got back with the vendor and he now had a special version for LED lights that would switch regardless of the load, but it was a three terminal device, with the third terminal a pigtail that the user had to connect to ground. I ordered it and plugged it in and connected the ground and it did not work. Turns out it was polarlity sensitive and Newell, according to this guy, did not follow standard DOT practice for how the flahser socket was wired. I just swapped the wires in the socket and it flashes and beeps just perfectly now.
Here is a link to the supplier:
http://www.turnalarm.com/
Russ
Russ White
2016 Winnebago Vista LX 30T
#530 ( Sold )
1999 45' Double Slide - Factory upgrade 2004