Barracade light problems

[xmodsnut]

Yesterday when I was modifying my new xmod and put both the command logic and the police lights on it and hooked them into the chassis and started to run it. as I was driving it only my CL lights were fully lit and my police barely lit. The batteries are fully charged and are relatively new. I am wondering has anyone else had this problem yet or is mine a fluke?

[meme405]

you already broke a brand new car??

LOL. just kidding maybe they just cant pull enough power to run together. maybe they wenret meant to be run together..

[bondo]

maybe they wenret meant to be run together..

i wouldnt say that is the case. the lightbar on the "Barricade" is the samething as the head/taillights.
it has leds,power wires and a board to tell it what to do.
the only difference is that the flashers would have a relay(s) on them.
if your having a problem with the lights then take it back to RS.
in most cases they will be more then happy to make things right.
when i bought my first evo mustang it came from the package with fried range and a scuffed body.
i took it back the next day and told a different clerk about it and he handed me another starter for free aong with the one i originally purchased.

[xmodsnut]

but the thing is the police lights work fine alone. I am going to watch the movie some time to see if the head and taillights flash and make them all flash if that is the case by soldering the lights alone to the police ones board.

[bondo]

if you want to cut the heatshrink off the headlight/tailight unit and take a picture, i can tell you if it has relays on it or if it's the same old CL setup.

[SkysTheLimit]

Its because you're only supposed to run one light kit at a time. Try connecting two CLL kits and you will see that the power drain makes both kits dim and the car driving itself weak. The secondary CLL port is for underglow only.

If you get more voltage, then I suppose you could run 2 kits at one time. But remember the board maxxes out at something like 7.5 volts.

[123Vette]

nope it just does that if u have more than to tailightrs plugged in when u drive tthey will dim and will go out iuntil u stop dont no y it just does

[xmodsnut]

Originally Posted by bondo

if you want to cut the heatshrink off the headlight/tailight unit and take a picture, i can tell you if it has relays on it or if it's the same old CL setup.

It is just the stock evo CL light kit. the police one has a totally new set up to run them.

Originally Posted by SkysTheLimit

Its because you're only supposed to run one light kit at a time. Try connecting two CLL kits and you will see that the power drain makes both kits dim and the car driving itself weak. The secondary CLL port is for underglow only.

I have a truck with one set of CLL on them and a second set made to run in my KC Highlites. instead of red tailights I used the white ones from a second kit and it doesn't dim at all.
I think the electricity is taking the path of least resistance and bypassing the police kit as much as it can. which means the electricity is taking the short cut.

[gt42r]

arent those lights like the normal command logice lights? just swap it out with a new one. lol

[xmodsnut]

they are two different setups totally. the police ones have relays and other stuff on them to make them blink.

[NON_SKID]

make sure you have the new cl lights to evo one the one thats like half the size try that

[123Vette]

i have led that flash red and blue without ne relays

[xmodsnut]

I am talking about the new evo ones not the gen one. I tried both sets and they had the same result.

[NON_SKID]

well then you have your self in a bit of a pickle

[xmodsnut]

well if someone watches the movie and says that all the lights work like the real police ones do I am going to solder them to the police board for the real effects.

[XMODification]

I'm glad I notice this thread today - I had this same problem with my Nissan Terrano - in that i am using 2 set of command logics - 1 for the head/tail lights and the other for the roof mounted spot lights. The head and tail lights are alot dimmer when both are on together but the min. i unplug the spot lights it works fine. I assume it the same as what you're expierencing with the flasher for the Baricade. Now I think I'll make my own flashers ( similiar to the police car and the Hummer's that I made before) instead of buying those from RS.

[Darkmagik]

to tell you all the truth the CL kit doesnt use much power at all for one reason thay are always lit and do nothing special so battery drain is very minimal. When you get fancy and have blinking lights the board that tells the lights what to do uses more battery up. So if you combine both the batteries would focus on lighting up the LEDS not on conduction the car. If you try to conduct your car with all of that stuff hooked up on the ep the LEDs will not be as bright as if they were standing alone. You have only one solution to this problem. The police lights need to have their own power source and everything will be fine. HOPE THIS HELPED AND CLEARED SOME ISSUES UP. =)

Jon

[texan_idiot25]

Heres the shocker...

You cant use them at the same time!

Plugging 2 cll into the xmod just causes this, the xmod cant supply the both to run both their circuits.

There arent relays, its the same type of flasher circuitry thats in the cheep flashing toys and such.

Simply, one draws more power than the other, so thats why you have one CLL set that works, and the other doesnt so well. Could be some internal work that limits voltage to them, I dunno. You can attempt to wire both kits to one plug, and see what happens though...

[Darkmagik]

Originally Posted by texan_idiot25

Heres the shocker...

You cant use them at the same time!

Plugging 2 cll into the xmod just causes this, the xmod cant supply the both to run both their circuits.

Do you really know what you are talking about man because i can prove that 2 CLL kits can be plugged in and still work. Better yet my evo has 2 GL kits on it and a CLL kit aswell and they all work fine. If you understood my previous post that what you wrote was pretty much what i said in the post before you.

Jon

[texan_idiot25]

I have two CLL kits, and I have shove them both into my S10 before. Sucked either way.

Do you even know what you are talking about? You contradict yourself so often...