Thread: Anybody else try this?

i have a 2001 Ford Explorer sport trac w/ driving lights. i have had wig wags since i bought the truck and if the driving lights are on when the wig wags are the driving lights shut off as the high beams turn on in the flash cycle (as they are supposed to do). today i disconnected one of the leads and reconnected the 2 headlights back so now both headlights pulse at the same time (like the old Galls Traffic Mover). now when my driving lights are on and the wigwags are both my high beams come on and alternate with both the driving lights. it looks pretty good in my opinion.

any thoughts and/or comments?

i will try and get video up of it as well.

Originally Posted by rsqemt911

i have a 2001 Ford Explorer sport trac w/ driving lights. i have had wig wags since i bought the truck and if the driving lights are on when the wig wags are the driving lights shut off as the high beams turn on in the flash cycle (as they are supposed to do). today i disconnected one of the leads and reconnected the 2 headlights back so now both headlights pulse at the same time (like the old Galls Traffic Mover). now when my driving lights are on and the wigwags are both my high beams come on and alternate with both the driving lights. it looks pretty good in my opinion.

any thoughts and/or comments?

i will try and get video up of it as well.

I did something similar - I wanted the place that did the install on my Explorer to have the driving lights alternate w/ my wig wags (right headlight & left driving light on, then left headlight & right driving light, etc.). They said it would screw up the lighting module or some shit. Since I never use my driving lamps anyway, I simply cut the positive wires and connected them to the WW flasher along with the headlamps. Works fine, and since I took out the fuse for the driving lamps I no longer get the "lamp out" message on the dash either. Easy enough to reconnect the wires when the truck is removed from service.

Originally Posted by PJD642

I did something similar - I wanted the place that did the install on my Explorer to have the driving lights alternate w/ my wig wags (right headlight & left driving light on, then left headlight & right driving light, etc.). They said it would screw up the lighting module or some shit. Since I never use my driving lamps anyway, I simply cut the positive wires and connected them to the WW flasher along with the headlamps. Works fine, and since I took out the fuse for the driving lamps I no longer get the "lamp out" message on the dash either. Easy enough to reconnect the wires when the truck is removed from service.

you also could have gotten the headlight flashers with the aux output and wired that to a set of LED hideaways in the driving lights too if you wanted the driving lights to work too. i didn't want to lose the driving lights and mine aren't really big enough to put hideaways in without some serious modding of the internal bumper mount.

Alot of agencies with the BC4 Camaro's would do that. Texas DPS, Dallas Police, as well as Chevrolet demos all did that. Of course it was hooking up the HLF, and then turning on the parking or headlights along with the driving lights, and the driving lights would go out when that side high beam was on. I also did this with some 1996 Pontiac Bonnivile's for the FBI as well as on my own Bonnie.


I had a 2000 Explorer, which had the same eletronics as your 2001, and discovered thta you have to tap in the HLF at the junction box for the relay controls in order to make the fogs flash as well. Way to much work, so I did not do that. However, it will not harm the relays. It is the 2006 and up Explorer that had the headlight control module and message center that freaks out with a HLF.

Originally Posted by HILO

Alot of agencies with the BC4 Camaro's would do that. Texas DPS, Dallas Police, as well as Chevrolet demos all did that. Of course it was hooking up the HLF, and then turning on the parking or headlights along with the driving lights, and the driving lights would go out when that side high beam was on. I also did this with some 1996 Pontiac Bonnivile's for the FBI as well as on my own Bonnie.


I had a 2000 Explorer, which had the same eletronics as your 2001, and discovered thta you have to tap in the HLF at the junction box for the relay controls in order to make the fogs flash as well. Way to much work, so I did not do that. However, it will not harm the relays. It is the 2006 and up Explorer that had the headlight control module and message center that freaks out with a HLF.

all i did was connect one of the outputs to the highbeam wire on the headlights. it triggers both highbeams and shuts off the fog lights then turns off the high beams and the driving lights come on.

your right that i do have to have the driving lights on already, but i usually do so that wasn't an issue. i actually used to forget to shut them off so i had alt. highbeams and pulsing driving lights, which is where i got the inital idea. it definatly is attention getting.

Sounds pretty neat, can't wait for a video

Originally Posted by MEVS06

Sounds pretty neat, can't wait for a video

I would also like to see this.


Dan

Originally Posted by SBFD-E-9

I would also like to see this.


Dan

i'll try and get one up today. gotta find my digital camera. and remember which site i had all my videos posted on LOL. haven't been around the lighting world in a bit and kinda out of the loop. just starting to get back into things.

here's my post in the my install forum with vids of the lights in action. the driveway is angled so the headlights show up a bit brighter than the driving lights but in person on flat ground the driving lights are equally as bright.

Anybody else try this?