StreetRacin101
09-01-2004, 11:18 PM
Materials Needed:
Soldering Iron
Solder
100k Linear Potentiometer
Approximate Cost:
$1.99 plus tax
The key to the project is a 100k linear potentiometer. They should be right next to the resistors at radio shack. It can adjust the blink rate from a little slower than stock to about 30 times a second. (It's a strobe effect at night, but it's practically constant on at that speed)
Locate your blinker relay. Most are under the dash along the drivers side of the car. Service manuals by Chilton or Haynes will be of use to you if you can not locate it. When you pull it the blinkers should stop working.
When you take apart the relay, there should be a few resistors, a capacitor, a chip, and couple other electronic parts.
http://www.andrews.edu/%7Ejohnsonm/howto/hyperblinker/brelay.jpg
In this diagramatical picture, it is the white/grn/org/red resistor. In my car it was white/violet/orange/gold. So there is a little bit of variation but it should near 100k.
To take it out, pull from the front of the board while holding a soldering iron on the resistor's solder from the back of the board. It should come right out.
Then, get two ~20ga wires. Solder each wire into one of the holes that the resistor came out of. Connect the wires to the middle post of the potentiometer and one of the outside ones (doesn't really matter which). I just wrapped them around and took the relay out to the car to make sure it worked. Adjust it potentiometer as needed.
One you have confirmed that it works, it's time to make it look pretty. I burned a small hole in the relay housing to snake the wires out of. Once the relay housing was back on with the wires sticking out, I glued the potentiometer to the top of the housing so it would be fairly easy to get to. Cut the wires down to length and solder them in place on the potentiometer.
A variation on this would be to make the wires several feet long and you could remote mount the potentiometer. Then you could change the blinker rate right from the drivers seat.
You finished product looks something like this:
http://www.andrews.edu/%7Ejohnsonm/howto/hyperblinker/finished.jpg
Soldering Iron
Solder
100k Linear Potentiometer
Approximate Cost:
$1.99 plus tax
The key to the project is a 100k linear potentiometer. They should be right next to the resistors at radio shack. It can adjust the blink rate from a little slower than stock to about 30 times a second. (It's a strobe effect at night, but it's practically constant on at that speed)
Locate your blinker relay. Most are under the dash along the drivers side of the car. Service manuals by Chilton or Haynes will be of use to you if you can not locate it. When you pull it the blinkers should stop working.
When you take apart the relay, there should be a few resistors, a capacitor, a chip, and couple other electronic parts.
http://www.andrews.edu/%7Ejohnsonm/howto/hyperblinker/brelay.jpg
In this diagramatical picture, it is the white/grn/org/red resistor. In my car it was white/violet/orange/gold. So there is a little bit of variation but it should near 100k.
To take it out, pull from the front of the board while holding a soldering iron on the resistor's solder from the back of the board. It should come right out.
Then, get two ~20ga wires. Solder each wire into one of the holes that the resistor came out of. Connect the wires to the middle post of the potentiometer and one of the outside ones (doesn't really matter which). I just wrapped them around and took the relay out to the car to make sure it worked. Adjust it potentiometer as needed.
One you have confirmed that it works, it's time to make it look pretty. I burned a small hole in the relay housing to snake the wires out of. Once the relay housing was back on with the wires sticking out, I glued the potentiometer to the top of the housing so it would be fairly easy to get to. Cut the wires down to length and solder them in place on the potentiometer.
A variation on this would be to make the wires several feet long and you could remote mount the potentiometer. Then you could change the blinker rate right from the drivers seat.
You finished product looks something like this:
http://www.andrews.edu/%7Ejohnsonm/howto/hyperblinker/finished.jpg