Grande Punto Grande Punto rear lights conversion to EVO lights

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• Jun 23, 2012

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Figures out what the best option was for the resistors to remove the error from teh dash.
I cannot edit the guide?

I put to 25watt 8Ohm resistors with heatsinks in a serie.
So they will use 50 watt's with a resistance of 16 Ohm.
This has been put between the LED+ and the MASS.
They become hot but I can put them in my fist without burning myself.


I do have two huge blisters from the solder iron though...

 

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These Lights look so so cool. just ordered everything I need! Thankyou for the guide!

 

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• Jun 29, 2012

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do you know where i can buy the plug for the 'evo' lights? and what is the mass cable for?

 

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• Jun 29, 2012

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punto mk1 plug is the same mate if you don't find

my question is if the resistor is set in series or parallel to the led wire. thanks

 

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You're 100% sure the plug from the mk 1 will fit the new evo lights? with the 5 metal bits? thanks

 

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mate do you have ANY idea where i can buy these rear plugs?!?! im desperate!!

 

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I got the plugs from an Gp EVO on scrapyard.

 

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The resistors are placed parallel to the led LED wire.

So straigh between the + and the MASS cables.

 

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is the load resistor wired like ..... LED Wire - LOAD RESISTOR - LED Lights
or is it... Mass wire (black one i believe? if 'mass' means like the main power one?) - Load Resistor - LED lights...

Is it either one of these combinations?
LED Wire - LOAD RESISTOR - LED Lights
Mass Wire - Load Resistor - LED lights...

I've tried cutting the LED wire and placing the Load resistor inline with it but it's failed. please help!! they look great btw, thankyou muchly for the guide!!

 

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MASS is the Ground Cable.

It's placed parallel to the led.

So you put the resistor between the MASS Cable and the + Cable.

You can see on the photo's on the guid how I wired it up.

 

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Nice job... i like that, How can i get those EVO rear lights for my GP?

 

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I have just purchased some rear evo lights the the plug I currently have is the 5pin square plug, I need to get hold of the 5pin round plug, anyone know where to get these from otherwise it'll be a soldiering an spade job!

 

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MKoers said:

Figures out what the best option was for the resistors to remove the error from teh dash.
I cannot edit the guide?

I put to 25watt 8Ohm resistors with heatsinks in a serie.
So they will use 50 watt's with a resistance of 16 Ohm.
This has been put between the LED+ and the MASS.
They become hot but I can put them in my fist without burning myself.


I do have two huge blisters from the solder iron though...

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Hey bro I am bothering you on this installation again,

Actually I am also trying to install it here in India.

What I came to know is that the resistance of the Parking light bulb is approx 3 Ohm.

And I am having hard time searching resistance of proper specs.

Please help me for some kind of alternative way.

 

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Hello, what is the name of this part (in the green cyrcle) and where can I buy it?

 

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I think that Brown/Black on left plug and Purple/Green on the right one is for checking LED conditions, I mean, check if they are blown or grounded to mass. Of course, we don't need it on our GP unless we want to check LEDs, so maybe you will need an extra homebrew board to check signal and send it back to ECU. Maybe using a MCU like the dear Arduino voltage sensor and a relay it might be able detect it, and then cut the LED power signal for avoiding damage ECU, wiring, or fuse system, and the Body Computer will detect that anomaly and show our detested "Check Running lights" message on our dashboard.

By the way, great job. On my EVO tailights, wiring color are different of yours, but I was able to make it work. If you want to remove the message on the dashboard, you just need to get x2 "5 Ohm" load resistors like (creating less temperature due to better heat dissipation) only on the driver side (on british cars) or passenger side (on the "common" cars).

Greetings and thanks!
Julio.