Re: light trick

["Ken Keith" <Ken.Keith@SpecialDevices.com>]

Tony Lum <tlum@flash.net> wrote:
> 
> mchang@ece.nwu.edu wrote:
> >
> >Tony -- what car are you referring to when you talk of this light trick?
> >I was originally thinking that it was for a 4kq, but alas... I think I'm
> >wrong.
> >
> Sorry Mark, I was talking about my 5ktq.  The 4kq uses a different bulb
> socket, making the swap difficult.  I want to convert the 4kq too, but it
> will require a little more work.  Do it electronically, which means you
> have to build a little black box, or physically like finding a junk bulb
> socket and modifying it to accept a 1157 bulb.

I think if you take the ground wire off the corner socket, and connect it 
to the positive wire from the turn signal socket, the result will be that 
the corner light will come on with the parking lights, come on with the 
turn signals, and turn off when both are lit.

This is how boy-racer Honda drivers hook(ed) up their side marker lights.  
I guess it works because the bulb grounds through the filaments of the 
other bulbs, except with both leads are energized positive.  So, it may 
not work in this application, because the turn signals are left out.

Ken