GPR LED Light Mod Question
More Turbo
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Hey guys so where did we land on this topic? I installed the LED while installing my gauges before I realized that hooking it up wasn't as straight forward as the pickup/non CA guys. I posted about this in the Ex forum For reference
Has anyone given this a shot or know if I can/should connect this?
Has anyone given this a shot or know if I can/should connect this?
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The only way to hook it up would be to a glowplug wire itself like the #1 glowplug. Then you will be able to tell if #1 is on and think the rest are on also. But if #1 is defective then you will get an erroneous reading. You could hook up 8 led lights, one for each GP but I think that would be excessive. You would have to find a good way to tap into the wire without creating a problem.
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I just finished this a few weeks ago, I tapped into gp #3 (why do you ask? Cause gp #3 burnt the connections from the flat connector to the vcgh and so I figured why not). Come to find out my gp were staying on for almost 3.5 min at about 72° out side. Although I was getting a code but no CEL that most likely is telling me to replace the gpcm. Long story short, it gave me a time line on how long they were actually powered on (koeo and koer). Oh yeah the gpcm is un-plugged to prevent another expensive repair.
Not like we need gp in So-Cal.
Robert
Not like we need gp in So-Cal.
Robert
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From: NJ pine barrens
... and quite a while back, in another of the longer GPR LED status indicator threads, someone tossed out the possibility of using a 10-segment LED bar graph indicator and tapping into each of the 8 GP power wires so that you could see if any individual GP lost its input from the GPCM, and even know which one it is!
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This is what I do, you can tell easily when the glow plugs turn on and off, plus the gauge is really handy anyway.
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I've been using one similar.
The cable is just long enough to plug into the far outlet and sit under the trip meter.
The cable is just long enough to plug into the far outlet and sit under the trip meter.
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I figured I would update this thread on what I did to connect the GPCM to an LED
Posted in the Excursion Forum
Posted in the Excursion Forum