Well, as you all know, when the car door is left open for an X amount of time (15 minutes or so). The interior lights are dissabled.
Does anyone know how to by pass this? So when you leave your doors open, the interior lights stay on constantly? Reason being, is at car shows with neons and such wired up to the interior lights, the neons shut off every 15 minutes or so, and it would be nice not having to re-wire the car again.
Ideas?
But once the door is shut, Id like to have the lights back off again obviously...so they aren't on all the time.
ummm...
raise the dome light switch/the dimmer to all the way up to stay on?
I didnt even try that...would that work?
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Ozzie wrote:ummm...
raise the dome light switch/the dimmer to all the way up to stay on?
Im pretty sure it still cuts off after 15 minutes....at least on mine it does.
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Go to the dome light and hook a constant 12V to it? Tried that? OR hook that constant 12V to a pin switch w. your door so it stays on when doors are open.
Sam
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Well tomorrow I will figure out if keeping the interior light switch turned on all the way will work or not. I thought it still shut off after the 15 minutes or so though? I could be wrong though...I will test it out tomorrow afternoon (16 hours from now).
i left my switch all the way up and on one time at work and it still shut off after 15 minutes
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mine would stay on if i had the dimmer all the way up so the dome light was on...BUT only stay on if the doors
were open...
yes it would shut off after 15 minutes if the doors were closed...
i didnt have neons tho, i had cathodes and leds...doubt if that makes a difference
Okay...I got off work earlier today, so I did my testing before the 16 hr time limit
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Anywho...these are the times I got for the interior light turning off:
Test 1: Doors opened, dimmer switch not turned on......automatic shut off time is 20 Minutes.
Test 2: Doors opened, dimmer switch turned on............automatic shut off time is 20 Minutes.
So regardless if you have the doors opened, the interior lights will shut off after 20 Minutes.
I'm going back into the garage right now, to test it out and see if one door is opened and one door is shut. I know if you leave both doors shut and the dimmer switch on, the interior lights stays on correct? HAHA I guess I will test that out too. I'll post again in another hour with updates on the next two tests.
Okay....
Test 3: One door open, One door closed dimmer switch turned on..............automatic shut off time is 20 Minutes
Test 4: Both doors to the car closed, and the dimmer switch turned on........automatic shut off time is 20 Minutes
So by the looks of it...regardless if the doors are opened or closed, and regardless if the dimmer switch is turned fully on or not...the interior lights in the car WILL SHUT OFF AFTER 20 MINUTES!.
I guess the dimmer switch is out of question now.
Any other suggestions on how to keep power going to the interior lighting system? Or would this be a GM feature that is directly connected to the battery just incase the battery dies off?
If nothing else...I suppose re-wiring my stuff to a constant power source is the only alternative, or else I'd have to keep pressing the button by the door to reset the interior light timer ever 20 minutes to keep the power flowing.
try this. wire your negative wire off your neons to the doors pinswitch, not to the light switch. downside to this is you have to wire two grounds one to each door that way the neon turns on no matter wich door you open, then run your power to your distibution block for the system. this way your getting permanent power but it only gets power when the doors are open. this is how i wired my neons when i had them in.
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I'll look into some possible solutions for this. I have an idea but not sure if it will work yet.
IM going to tap into my light in my trunk to have my neons turn on when i open the trunk and they will shut off when i close it. So if i just tap both wires and plug the neons right into those wires which should be neg and pos. Correct?
toggle switch that bish
run your hot lead off your toggle to the terminal on the back side of the dimmer, that way after the relay kicks the lights off, it will still have 12 volts going to it, therefore, the lights should stay on.
it's woth a try.
j
^ i was thinking that too...if there is a power sourse wired to the dimmer and a toggle switch connected, I can cut the power source and supply power at the flip of a switch.
Blue Splash: Correct. I've done that. The neon light in the trunk turns on when I open the trunk, and turns off when I close the trunk, just like the small light bulb in the trunk aswell.
yes. ^^ just find a fused power source, if nothing else, go straight from the fuse box, to toggle, to dimmer, and do it like that.
j
I ran all my neons inside and out to a remote box. That box is hooked up to a constant power. this way I can turn every single neon on by the push of a button.
ext. strobes = 1 button
underbodies = 2nd button
rear (roof) neons = 3rd button
rest of the interior neons = 4th button
I love it and they will stay on till the battery dies if I want (so many neons are for show purposes not rice lol)
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