FAIL !
Now everything blinked too fast, there are small side markers in the headlights that also blinked, and inside the cab, the radio display blinked along with the indicators when the headlights were off.
If I turned on the headlights, the radio display blacked out.
Note the side light in the headlights.
ALSO.......
We now had one LED showing white and one Amber if you look closely.
Electronics are a dark art, and I just don’t get it.
So in the phone to @Rider51 Henry, a long conversation, videos and him writing notes furiously.
I also tried to get hold of @craigrk and mate Martin.
Martin went off on his typical explanation, he lives and breathes micro circuitry, and assumes, wrongly, I understand. Anyway, he tried bravely and I offered to kiss his butt if what he said was true. Seems I have a butt to kiss some time.
After 4 hours of working on this job from hell, I managed to get it sorted.
Martin had told me that these lamps actually have defined polarity, I disagreed, as it fits any way, and looks the same both sides.
Wrong.
The crazy thing is, over the lat few weeks these have gone in and out of my pockets many many times, and me as it seems, 99% of the time I managed to fit them correctly to create white light at rest and Amber when activated.
Randomly, after speaking with Henry and Martin, I tried the one lamp, removing and switching through 180 degrees, and believe it, the colour changed.
Then I switched the passenger side lamp around and everything changed,
Once established, I soldered and heat shrunk all the joints.
The breeze all day messed with soldering outside and also the lighter flame to do the heat shrink, maybe time to buy a little blow flame.
So in order to make it all work, I threw my painting groundsheet over my head, swore like a sailor and carried on.
Much better.
Lastly, a quick video of it all working.
https://youtu.be/jdIu7KdpWs0
Really happy that the weekend is over and actually delivered an outcome I wanted.
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