Thread: Reverse lights
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Old 10-18-2018, 10:18 PM   #10
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Default Re: Reverse lights

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Originally Posted by Sergio View Post
That is definitively not a feasible solution for DIY, I guess even though the relay coil is just 20ma, most accidental mishaps messing with the mixed voltage connectors end in catastrophic failure.
It has nothing to do with current. It is a delicate balance of voltage values between the two interrelated functions, and any disruption to that tends to end with a catastrophic failure of the controller. That part of the circuitry of the controller triggers controller memory load at powerup and save at powerdown, to and from high memory/low memory. You disrupt that, and it bricks the controller.

Just ask anyone that has cut a reverse buzzer wire on an RXV to silence it, how did that work out for them...

A new controller later, they learned to not do that again.
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