? about braking indicator light.
I have seen on here where some folks have a light (I take it is in the toad vehicle) that they use to let them know when the toad brakes are applied. This sounds like a good idea to me. So this is wha...
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Brake Buddy, like others, come with Gee-Whiz Electronics to confirm that everything is hunky-dory.
What Butch wants is something simple and independent to keep all that electronics honest. Brake goes down, Light goes on.
For a vehicle with a roof rack, like Crosstrek, I'd consider connecting to the high-mounted "third" brake light and putting an Amber LED Turn Signal light on the rack facing forward.
Butch, you must have a different rear view "look" than we do. I can barely see the roof of our Nissan Frontier pickup from the inside rear view mirror of the coach. And can't see the sides at all except in a sharp turn. So for us, something on he front side of the inside mirror of the toad wouldn't work. Would work with a rearview camera on the coach but we don't have one.
Hate to run wire to a light in the coach, but that might be my answer.
If I could see a light in or on the toad, that's what I'd do. To me, the idea is to keep the fail-safe warning as simple as possible.
I suggested Amber because it's not legal to show a red light forward, and Signal because I don't think a running or marker light would be visible under all conditions. LED because it'd work on small gauge wire and not cause any imbalance in the toad's lighting system.
What Butch wants is something simple and independent to keep all that electronics honest. Brake goes down, Light goes on.
For a vehicle with a roof rack, like Crosstrek, I'd consider connecting to the high-mounted "third" brake light and putting an Amber LED Turn Signal light on the rack facing forward.
Butch, you must have a different rear view "look" than we do. I can barely see the roof of our Nissan Frontier pickup from the inside rear view mirror of the coach. And can't see the sides at all except in a sharp turn. So for us, something on he front side of the inside mirror of the toad wouldn't work. Would work with a rearview camera on the coach but we don't have one.
Hate to run wire to a light in the coach, but that might be my answer.
If I could see a light in or on the toad, that's what I'd do. To me, the idea is to keep the fail-safe warning as simple as possible.
I suggested Amber because it's not legal to show a red light forward, and Signal because I don't think a running or marker light would be visible under all conditions. LED because it'd work on small gauge wire and not cause any imbalance in the toad's lighting system.
