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Originally Posted by robones The problem is that you tapped both the brake light and tail lights and you caused a short. You linked them somehow. its one or the

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Old 08-21-2012, 03:31 PM   #10 (permalink)
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The problem is that you tapped both the brake light and tail lights and you caused a short. You linked them somehow. its one or the other. Either you link the Fog light to the Tail lights, Brake lights, Reverse lights but not all together. Unless you do some modification to the Fog light with a two fillament bulb.
I have a 2 filament (7443) bulb in a 7443 socket.

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I'm going to start updating that post with details on what happened. It's fixed now and I just got back from a quick test ride (with the lights on) to verify all is well. A quick summary is that I was grounding the low light filament, providing running power to the high light filament, and providing braking current to the ground. So basically it worked visually in that it came on with the tail lights and got brighter with the brake lights, but there were were some other issues at the same time.
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