In reply to DarkMonohue :
Sounds good!
In reply to DarkMonohue :
Sounds good!
I'm with Bob - whatever you do, try to avoid a situation where you just have lights in front on when it is dusk/dawn/dark.
if you run low beams or lights up front that are bright enough and don't have auto lights, there is a good chance of forgetting to turn headlights on. Then you end up running stealth mode in the back which is dangerous and I've heard you'd be at fault. (Legally speaking)
In reply to jfryjfry :
I've wondered how people can do that. White background gauges? Backlit digital IP? Simply never look at the gauges?
My 2004 Golf uses the low beams as DRLs and does not have automatic lights. Between black background gauges and my own unexceptional low-light vision, I turn on the lights in order to see the gauges well before the headlights are doing anything useful to illuminate the road. Granted, the headlights are pretty bad at illuminating the road even in complete darkness...
In reply to Oapfu :
Most newer cars have backlit LED gauges and switchgear so they never realize their lights aren't on.
One good thing about using the dual filament marker lights is that they don't give off enough light to light up the road, so you won't be fooled into thinking your headlights are on. Still gives plenty of light to be seen though. Also, lots of cars use that same strategy for DRL's from the factory (Canadian NA Miatas for one) and many, like my current car will turn off the DRL on the side that's signaling to make the turn signal more obvious. It was a very OEM like execution.
Also, I'm pretty sure that the re-wiring I did was at least partially done by swapping stock wires around in the engine bay fuse/relay box, I basically just slid the spade connector out of the relay slot and slide a new one in its place.
On the Manic Miata, the PO added a set of inexpensive driving lights in the lower grille. These were wired to be power on with ignition, but with a position switch at the handbrake handle so that if the handbrake was on it interrupted power to the DRLs.
This thread has me wondering: How many here would be interested if I made a run of new DRL modules similar to the Hasmar unit? This seems pretty close to "I could do that with a 555" territory.
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