I'd be very interested in buying a pre-made kit to switch on my sidelights and reverse lights. Is it something you think you will do?

Hi Folks

Ive just fitted the kit that i bought from Korban and it looks very expensive when it puts lights on

Nice simple mod that looks really trick (simple if you get it made for you that is)

Regards Whoosh (and once again thanks to the master of the soldering iron)

I'd be very interested in buying a pre-made kit to switch on my sidelights and reverse lights. Is it something you think you will do?

The kit as it stands will cope with up to 60 watts connected to it, Side lights take up about 30 watts ( 6 * 5 watt bulbs) reversing lights take up another 42 watts (2 * 21 watt bulbs) thats a total of 72 watts more than the circuit will handle. If you have front LED sidelights and LED numberplate lights and standard rear side lights you will be using about 15 watts plus the 42 for the reversing lights makes a total of 57 watts within the limit of the kit, but I Would Not Recommend IT. I never like running electrical wiring at the maximum it can take !!. I could however add an extra relay to the system to power the reversing lights. You would however have to run an extra cable from the module to either the reversing light switch which is located in the engine bay bolted to the gearbox or run a cable from the front dash to one of the taillight clusters and connect it to the reversing light (you only need to connect to one side for both lights to work).

As for prices

I'm asking £26 for this kit with the price made up as follows :-

Kit £7.00

Del £3.00 From Maplins website (cheaper than me driving there).

Parts £3.00 Wire, sleeving, diodes and scotch-lock connectors.

Build £10.00 My time in soldering it together (1 1/2 hours).

P&P £3.00 Postage and packaging to you.

Total £26.00

If you want an extra relay let me know and I can price one up

Karl

Hi Folks

Ive just fitted the kit that i bought from Korban and it looks very expensive when it puts lights on

Nice simple mod that looks really trick (simple if you get it made for you that is)

Regards Whoosh (and once again thanks to the master of the soldering iron)

Glad you liked it Whoosh, evidently my instruction can't have been than bad then.

Picture of what I've been installing to day, installed mine in the centre of the dash, now more blue than ever lol, which Parrot kit have you got and where did you attach it ?

Karl

Me again!

You speak of using a relay for the reverse light - could I use the method in the guide below to power the front lights, with the Maplin board being a subsitute for the interior light signal? I see no reason why it shouldn't work, but you know much, much more than me!

Thanks!

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/114422-how-to-retro-fit-coming-home-lights/page__hl__coming+home+retrofit

The kit as it stands will cope with up to 60 watts connected to it, Side lights take up about 30 watts ( 6 * 5 watt bulbs) reversing lights take up another 42 watts (2 * 21 watt bulbs) thats a total of 72 watts more than the circuit will handle. If you have front LED sidelights and LED numberplate lights and standard rear side lights you will be using about 15 watts plus the 42 for the reversing lights makes a total of 57 watts within the limit of the kit, but I Would Not Recommend IT. I never like running electrical wiring at the maximum it can take !!. I could however add an extra relay to the system to power the reversing lights. You would however have to run an extra cable from the module to either the reversing light switch which is located in the engine bay bolted to the gearbox or run a cable from the front dash to one of the taillight clusters and connect it to the reversing light (you only need to connect to one side for both lights to work).

As for prices

I'm asking £26 for this kit with the price made up as follows :-

Kit £7.00

Del £3.00 From Maplins website (cheaper than me driving there).

Parts £3.00 Wire, sleeving, diodes and scotch-lock connectors.

Build £10.00 My time in soldering it together (1 1/2 hours).

P&P £3.00 Postage and packaging to you.

Total £26.00

If you want an extra relay let me know and I can price one up

Karl

Glad you liked it Whoosh, evidently my instruction can't have been than bad then.

Picture of what I've been installing to day, installed mine in the centre of the dash, now more blue than ever lol, which Parrot kit have you got and where did you attach it ?

Karl

Sorry posted last post in error

What i ment to say was looking good can't b any blue LEDs left at maplins

Regards Whoosh

Edited 15 January, 201214 yr by whoosh

Sorry for sounding think, but I am interested in this mod.just can't get my head around it. So with the kit you are building the interior,sidelights and the reversing lights come on?

I would rather have the headlights come on instead of the reversing lights.

Cheers Ants no pants

Hi Ant-Vrs

The kit switches on the sidelights when the interior lights go on when keys taken out ignition and stay on to u lock it orwhen u unlock it when u r going towards it .

And the light sensitive switch stops it coming on in daylight.

The kit only switches on sidelights . Think the member was only askn if other lights could b switched on.

Hope this helps

Regards Whoosh

I'd be very interested in buying a pre-made kit to switch on my sidelights and reverse lights. Is it something you think you will do?

With regards to you reply to my post ^^. What if my sidelights and reverse lights have led bulbs in (which they do) does that affect the wattage. God I sound pretty stupid, but electics isnt a forte of mine lol.

Me again!

You speak of using a relay for the reverse light - could I use the method in the guide below to power the front lights, with the Maplin board being a subsitute for the interior light signal? I see no reason why it shouldn't work, but you know much, much more than me!

Thanks!

Yes you are right TriggerFish this would work very well, all you need to do is supply power to the Yellow/Green wire at the back of the Light Switch. I am including an extra lead to power a relay within the Kit that I am selling anyway just in case.

Karl

Sorry for sounding think, but I am interested in this mod.just can't get my head around it. So with the kit you are building the interior,sidelights and the reversing lights come on?

I would rather have the headlights come on instead of the reversing lights.

Cheers Ants no pants

Hi Ant-Vrs, the Kit as standard from Maplins comes with a relay which is only capable of powering about 60 watts which is about twice as much as the standard side light set up on the Fabia, Therefor I am selling the kit to power the side lights only, but with a spare cable that can be connected to an extra relay to power headlamps, Fog lights, reversing lights or whatever you want to.

Hope that clears it up.

Karl

With regards to you reply to my post ^^. What if my sidelights and reverse lights have led bulbs in (which they do) does that affect the wattage. God I sound pretty stupid, but electics isnt a forte of mine lol.

Hi saint1d if all of your side lights and reversing lights are LED then the standard circuit will power them. As a guide sidelights are 5 watt bulbs were as the equivalent LED would only consume about 1-2 watts max. Reversing lights would be a different matter but again as a guide they should be less than half of the equivalent standard 21 watt bulb.

Karl

As it seems that members want to power more than just side lights I could include a relay and the correct wiring for it for an extra £6 on top of the £26 for the standard kit.

Cheers

Karl

Yes you are right TriggerFish this would work very well, all you need to do is supply power to the Yellow/Green wire at the back of the Light Switch. I am including an extra lead to power a relay within the Kit that I am selling anyway just in case.

Karl

Edit - Helps if I type something before pressing post!

Excellent, thank you! Looks like I've something to do next weekend if it stays dry.

I'll try and take pictures/do a pictorial 'how too' (brings back memories of childrens TV) as well. If you don't mind that is - it is your idea and you're selling kits, so I don't want to deprive you of money!

Edited 15 January, 201214 yr by TriggerFish

Ok Karl I.am really interested in the kit plus the extra bits for the headlights etc etc how long would the kit take to make and for delivery? And also would you give a diagram for the wires

Cheers Ants no pants

Is the best way to wire to the interior light unit itself? When I fitted my alarm I tried to decode what wires do what at the Central Electrics Control Unit thingy, in conjunction with the Skoda wiring diagrams, and failed miserably bringing up lots of error codes in the process. (It impressed me how specific the error codes can be though, short to ground, short to positive etc).

I'll try and take pictures/do a pictorial 'how too' (brings back memories of childrens TV) as well. If you don't mind that is - it is your idea and you're selling kits, so I don't want to deprive you of money!

Thats a great idea go for it the more info the better, I'm not really selling the kits to make money, from the price breakdown you will see I'm only making £10 per kit and it does take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to solder the kit together and make up the small wiring harness and fully test it (my rates are a lot less than VAG stealer's ). The main reason for doing this is that I realise that not all the members on the forum have the necessary tools and skills to assemble a PCB together and I don't mind helping people out because when its finished its a trick bit of kit, mines been on now for over a month now and I still love watching the side lights automatically come on at night (sad or what )

Karl

Ok Karl I.am really interested in the kit plus the extra bits for the headlights etc etc how long would the kit take to make and for delivery? And also would you give a diagram for the wires

Cheers Ants no pants

Hi Ant, turn around time is at the most about a week to you door assuming Maplin deliver in two days, I will include instructions as to what wires to connect to the standard set up is only 6 (2 to interior light and 4 to the back of the Light Switch). When you say headlights etc etc headlights will take up one extra relay but what else ? PM me your exact requirements.

Karl

Is the best way to wire to the interior light unit itself? When I fitted my alarm I tried to decode what wires do what at the Central Electrics Control Unit thingy, in conjunction with the Skoda wiring diagrams, and failed miserably bringing up lots of error codes in the process. (It impressed me how specific the error codes can be though, short to ground, short to positive etc).

Hi anewman, from what I can see from the circuit diagrams there is a controlled 12 volt positive output from the convenience system control unit which ends up at the Interior light anyway, which for some people it is most probably the easiest way to tap in to it, but you could connect it directly to the convenience system if you so wish but from what I understand its mounted above the throttle pedal and a bugger to get at IIRC.

Karl

Pm'd

Got my sensor from Maplin's today after a bit of confusion over stock levels.

Anyway, one quick question which I think you've answered in the wiring diagram - power. Straight from the interior light/ignition?

I guess I could just take the wires straight to the PCB rather than messing with the provided adaptor port/socket?

Edited 19 January, 201214 yr by TriggerFish

Got my sensor from Maplin's today after a bit of confusion over stock levels.

Anyway, one quick question which I think you've answered in the wiring diagram - power. Straight from the interior light/ignition?

I guess I could just take the wires straight to the PCB rather than messing with the provided adaptor port/socket?

For them to work as just coming home lights, power from the interior lights only. If you want them to work as automatic lights on as well power from a live with ignition via a diode is also needed, but needs to be connected the negative end of a diode on the PCB. Let me know if you want to do this and I will get a picture up showing where to solder it to.

Yes don't bother with the socket, the kit has two pins to solder directly to the board.

Karl

Thanks, that's what I thought from previous posts by yourself.

I have the headlights on constantly anyway, so just the interior light will do.

Cheers

Can you pm me your paypal address I would like to buy a kit from you. Also could you email me instruction on how to install? Thanks.

Like the flashing brake light... Interested to know how you did it?

I love the locking beep. No need to check its locked.

Same here I have the bleep also it is quite handy, I do like the coming home lights too, would be a nice little touch. Is it easy and inexpensive to do?

+1

Also would love coming home lights to be the fogs - similar to the standard SEAT Exeo feature :-)

Hmm so many posts!

For the interior lights....e.g.the speed dials and heater controls and all that, is it just a case of buying LED's and soldering them in the place of the old LED's? Assuming its LEDs that are there now.

They look class when they are nice and bright like that! Makes my standard set up look like a 5 year old set of xmas lights, dull and boring!

Yes don't bother with the socket, the kit has two pins to solder directly to the board.

Karl

So I can use those two silver pins as a power input source, instead?

I soldered it all up today (first time I've used one properly since year 8 eletronics! ), and just wanted to make sure I could use those before blowing something up.

Final thing, the LED on the board, what causes that to come on, power, or when the board is 'outputing'.

Thanks again.

+1

Also would love coming home lights to be the fogs - similar to the standard SEAT Exeo feature :-)

That can be done with an extra relay for £6

Hmm so many posts!

For the interior lights....e.g.the speed dials and heater controls and all that, is it just a case of buying LED's and soldering them in the place of the old LED's? Assuming its LEDs that are there now.

They look class when they are nice and bright like that! Makes my standard set up look like a 5 year old set of xmas lights, dull and boring!

More info here and here

So I can use those two silver pins as a power input source, instead?

I soldered it all up today (first time I've used one properly since year 8 eletronics! ), and just wanted to make sure I could use those before blowing something up.

Final thing, the LED on the board, what causes that to come on, power, or when the board is 'outputing'.

Thanks again.

Yes you can use the two silver pins included with the kit, but beware you still need to solder the black socket in place as it forms part of the circuit.

The LED on the board only lights up when the circuit is 'outputing'.

Karl

I'll try and take pictures/do a pictorial 'how too' (brings back memories of childrens TV) as well. If you don't mind that is - it is your idea and you're selling kits, so I don't want to deprive you of money!

Would love a pictorial how-to just to be extra sure I'm doing the right thing when fitting!

If all goes well tomorrow then I'll have done one.

Fighting the PCB at the minute, I think I've made a short circuit with the chip, as it's not working properly. The LED glows, but doesn't light, even when bypassing the resistor. Inspection with a magnifying glass shows a stray hairline piece of solder connecting two pins, but otherwise it's fine. I'll reflow it tomorrow when I've warmed up the iron again.