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Turning Lights (Not turn signals)


woodyedmiston

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My Mercury Marquis has turning lights - that is when you turn on your turn signal, a white light shines toward the direction you are turning at a right angle to the car. I really like having those lights in areas where there is no street lights. You can see where you are going to go before you go . . .

I'd like to put something like it on my Ranger SC. Has anyone done this to a Ranger?

Before I tackle it myself I thought I would ask. I'd like to mount the lights before I paint the truck.
 
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those are handy, and it would be a nice addition to a ranger.

but looking at a '99 wiring schematic, i dont see how it would be easily achieved. the current flow goes:

flasher--->multi function switch--->bulbs.

so when a turn signal is engaged, the whole turn signal circuit is flashing. there is no steady "signal on" power supply.

that doesnt mean its impossible, it just means you would have to be creative. maybe a relay with a capacitor on each turn signal circuit. the capacitor could function to hold the relay closed for the second that the signal flashes off....:dunno:
 
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Thanks Sludge:

As far as I am concerned this is the true value of TRS - I could have looked at a schematic and wasted a lot of time trying to figure that out . . . maybe I would have acccomplished it. Because of the site, you told me exactly what I needed to know. And I might add, exactly what I was afraid of . . .

Capacitors . . . hmmmm.
 
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if you had some time i'd take a look at your Mercury Marquis and maybe trace some wires. see how ford wired them in and maybe you can "rob" some relay or controler the factory used, if you can see how they did it in the car?
 
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