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Old 09-13-2022, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by wpoll View Post
It won't fry the lights but it may not work either. The system is designed to work with incandescent lamps and not LEDs. To use a brake light as a tail light requires the LCM to modulate the voltage going to the brake lamps, in effect running it a lower voltage, simulating a lower wattage lamps (21W vs 5W). Modulating the voltage on the LEDS won't dim them - it will simply make them flicker.

Gotcha, I will do some more investigating and see what happens when i enable that option. I imagine what will happen is the lower light will be illuminated along with the upper one as a taillight, but they're going to flicker, which means i need to put capacitors to eliminate it.
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