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Jonny Jeep

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Re: Auto headlights on WJ
« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2015, 09:02:45 AM »

Had a look and the FSM shows only one fog light sense for the BCM, and only one wire leaving the switch for the fog lights. It must be another resistor multiplexed switch sense looking for different values for front, or front and rear fogs. If you wanted to have auto headlights and rear fog you'd have add a switch somewhere to control either the fogs or the auto headlight feature.

The easiest way I think to do it, both options would do a similar thing, switching the circuit to the BCM between the headlamp switch and a preset resistance to control the fogs or auto HL. Do you have somewhere you could add a switch? You'd need to run two or three wire to the switch to get it set up.

We know what resistance the AHL feature requires but if you were to swap your current switch and add a seperate switch for the fogs we'd need to know what resistance is at the switch between the fog output and whichever pin the input is from.
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Re: Auto headlights on WJ
« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2015, 04:15:55 PM »

Whatever happened to the good old days where a switch turned on a light  :banghead:

Right I'm going to get the bloody switch and we'll see what happens! I might try and rig it so that the single fog switch turns on both front and rear at the same time with some resistor trickery. Otherwise, I'll stick an additional switch in and like you said we can work out what resistance it would need to send to the bcm. Or live without rear fogs!!
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Re: Auto headlights on WJ
« Reply #27 on: February 20, 2015, 05:56:40 PM »

Whatever happened to the good old days where a switch turned on a light  :banghead:

says the man trying to get them to turn on by themselves  :hysterical:
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Re: Auto headlights on WJ
« Reply #28 on: February 20, 2015, 09:23:48 PM »

Whatever happened to the good old days where a switch turned on a light  :banghead:

says the man trying to get them to turn on by themselves  :hysterical:

 :iagree:  Haha!! You're so right
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Re: Auto headlights on WJ
« Reply #29 on: February 20, 2015, 10:00:25 PM »

Very amusing.

The FSM just shows a single switch within the headlamp switch for fog light sense. Whether that's just for US models which don't normally get rear fog lights, and exports have a multiplexed switch I don't know. The only way we'll know for sure is for the resistance to be checked on your original switch. You'd need to check with the different fog light positions selected between pins 1 and 4. That's where the white/tan and white/dark green wires go to.
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