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[dave 17]

Im instaling my new alarm and to make the indicators flash on arm/disarm it needs to be connected 2 the wires on the indicator stalk that pulse on and off with the indicators on .Does anyone know which colour is the left and which the right because i put my test light on it and on selecting left indication 2 wires pulse :saywhat:
Cheers people dave

[philster]

green with red stripe should be L/H indicator

green with white stripe should be R/H indicator

When connecting the wires make sure you do it before the connect (so it not on the column side).

[dave 17]

Cheers for help ,do you mean that further down those wires it goes into a block connector and to connected them on the bulkhead side of that?
cheers dave

[philster]

just don't do it on the side that the column is on, that way if you ever need to remove the column for anything (or replace the stalks) you don't have to start cutting the wires.

[binge]

To be honnest, id keep WELL AWAY from hacking into the indicators. Ive just spent the last 3 days trying to make mine work! :tongue:

Id go down the Hazard Light look route.
Just use one of the wires from the Alarm system rather than both.

And simple wire it to the loom Right after that flasher unit IN the engine bay.

The hazards are on a seperate Loom to the indicators, And when I started messing with my Switch gear, I found that my High beam made my sidelights come on. My Main beam didnt work, and when I put my sidelights onm the high beam light came up on the clocks, BUt rather than getting light from the front, I got Smoke from the wiring loom!


Its ALL sorted now, Fresh loom and switch gear!


But yea, Id personally go down the Hazard light approach.

[dave 17]

Uh oh to late i see how it goes lol :sick: :saywhat: :fear:

[binge]

If you have done it. And its ok. The thats cool.

Id just rather never Touch my Indicators again! After the mess around this weekend. Ive not even managed to do the main things I wanted to because of the Damn Indicators.


<|Ben|>

[Dan]

As usual, Binge should be ignored. ( sorry Binge)

If you connect to the flasher unit for either system (hazards or indicators) nothing will happen as the switches are still isolating the lamps from the alarm. You should use the wiring as the alarm is designed. If it has two low current relays in it (quite likely as alarms are in small boxes) rather than one high current relay driving two outputs, then connecting all the lamps for both sides of the car to one of the low current relays will quite likely overload the alarm system and at best break the unit or at worst cause a fire. Also you don't wan't anthing connecting both sides of your indicator circuit together other than the hazard switch for obvious reasons. Connect to the green/red and green/white wires as the instructions say, and do it in the car harness rather than the switch wiring as said above so that the switch can be replaced in future if needed.

[binge]

As usual, Binge should be ignored. ( sorry Binge)

Well im just stating.

Thats how I wired my Alarm up to my Rover Mini when I had it.
Through the hazard light Loom. I had the Wires from the Alarm box, Running to the "Switch" terminal On a Relay box.

Then a Perminant Live to the relay crossover, Then to the hazard Light loom.


it puts NO stress on the Alarm Box at all because A relay only draws a Very low current.


Just my oppinion to be honnest. Ive had BAD experiences with Indicator Looms! :tongue:


I wired my Moped alarm / remote start up this way too. Through the hazards / using a relay of my own.

[Dan]

Binge, you didn't say before to wire via a relay now did you? You told him to add the full load of his hazard circuit to one side of his alarm unit, that's around 100 watts on a circuit no doubt designed to drive half that. Alarms don't use your flasher unit to drive the lamps, they use their own internal relays so adding more relays is making the system more complicated than it needs to be.

[binge]

Binge, you didn't say before to wire via a relay now did you? You told him to add the full load of his hazard circuit to one side of his alarm unit, that's around 100 watts on a circuit no doubt designed to drive half that. Alarms don't use your flasher unit to drive the lamps, they use their own internal relays so adding more relays is making the system more complicated than it needs to be.

:nugget:

Sorry, Just re'read my post and realised.


no, No you must Stick a relay in there between the Indicator Flasher wire from the Alarm, ANd the Hazard Light loom!


Easy enough to wire up aswel...

[dave 17]

Finally tested alarm and indicators work fine eventhough ive connected to the indicator wires and not hazards ,no nasty side effects so far lol :grin:
Dave