Turning off turn signals as park lights?

[amancuso]

Originally Posted by mr_robot

So I think one of the ways to achieve what I'm looking for (turn signals off w/ parking lights) is with the euro version headlights.

I was just checking out my Euro set I have waiting to be installed and the turn signal bulb is different then the US spec ones.

The Euro lights use 7507 bulb which is only single filament versus the 3157 dual. It's a also a silver bulb but amber.

Also just looking at pictures and videos of Euro versions none of them have the turn signal on when the halos are on only.



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My car is set up like this. A member from the e53 group on Facebook did it for me.

[mr_robot]

Originally Posted by amancuso

My car is set up like this. A member from the e53 group on Facebook did it for me.

What did you use? Hard wiring or via coding?




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[amancuso]

Originally Posted by mr_robot

What did you use? Hard wiring or via coding?




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He did it all via coding.

[mr_robot]

Darn it lol


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[jsoto]

since this thread is completely about turn signals, can anyone tell me how PWM is coming into play here

LED is fine on turn signal wire with low beam off

When i turn on low beams, something must be going that is feeding a different PWM on th the turns as the LED fritzes out
I'm thinking with lows off, and it's just full on 12V when u engage the turns.
With the low beams on, the 12V PWM is cycling on the turn signal wire.

[crystalworks]

Originally Posted by jsoto

since this thread is completely about turn signals, can anyone tell me how PWM is coming into play here

LED is fine on turn signal wire with low beam off

When i turn on low beams, something must be going that is feeding a different PWM on th the turns as the LED fritzes out
I'm thinking with lows off, and it's just full on 12V when u engage the turns.
With the low beams on, the 12V PWM is cycling on the turn signal wire.

Do you have a resistor wired in the fronts?

[mr_robot]

Really curious to know how. After just researching LED upgrades for the halos everyone's ones goal was to achieve how the newer BMW halos looked and how much brighter they were no matter which LED they used. The strongest 10w ones were bright but still dim compared to the newer models.

And it had a lot to do with the how the fiber optics for the halos were designed in the first place on the e53/e39 vs e70/60/90.

Basically they never designed it to be drls so that is why there is no coding option on the lcm. By law DRL has to be a certain brightness and since maybe this technology was still new they couldn't achieve it or couldn't fit it in the confined space and design of already existing housing design.

Also if you see the bulbs they used on e53/39 is a tiny bulb vs the H8 used on e70/60/90.

On my e70 the coding option is right there and can even adjust the voltage to adjust the brightness.




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[mr_robot]

Also something else I learned, by law/regulation taillights cannot be moved and must be fixed to the car. So since we have a opening lower hatch those lights don't light up as brake lights and maybe the reason the e53 didn't get the cool celis tails like the e39 during the facelift lol. Maybe at the time they just couldn't bother with it.

But they figured it out for the e70, would love to have this style on my e53.


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[amancuso]

Originally Posted by mr_robot

Also something else I learned, by law/regulation taillights cannot be moved and must be fixed to the car. So since we have a opening lower hatch those lights don't light up as brake lights and maybe the reason the e53 didn't get the cool celis tails like the e39 during the facelift lol. Maybe at the time they just couldn't bother with it.

But they figured it out for the e70, would love to have this style on my e53.


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I don’t know what he did but it works. The halos are not DRLs, they just turn on when you put the parking lights on just them not the amber bulbs. Also the tail light thing, doesn’t make sense because e39 wagons have celis tails.


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[mr_robot]

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