Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Blinker Controller

One of the challenges of building this car has been the lights.  I am using a 3 wire turn signal switch with snow flake tail lights.  To make it work I had to hook up a trailer light converter and use a mechanical flasher can.  I've not been crazy about that since I hooked it all up.  The indicator light in the dash is dimly light even with the turn signals off.

To fix this problem I am having one of our EEs at work help me with a solid state blinker controller / tail light converter module.  Today was a big day.  We got the board cut out.  We actually cut out 2 boards so we have a spare in case we run into any problems.  Alex will be soldering the components to the board and doing some testing on it for the next couple days then I will do the firmware.