I recently picked up the GS100A to modify the 3rd brake light to flash for greater visibility. After researching here I purchased the GS100A and Male / Female connectors from CorsoMotion (Set Male Female 2P 090M 090F GRAY Plugs, Honda taillights harness | 2x Male, 2x Female).

I have never installed connectors like this before. I assume I need to pin the red/black wires on the GS100A but I do not know where to get the pins nor do I correctly understand how to install the pin’d wires from the GS100A into the connectors. Any help, advice, videos would be great appreciated.

thanks!

 

The connectors come with pins. You simply are installing the module in line with the brake light. In from the car and out to the brake light.

 

My connectors did not come with the pins. I ordered them from here.

https://corsomotion.com/products/set...male-2x-female

 

Contact @Birdybog . He has a plug-n-play in 3d brake light strobe flasher. No need to reinvent the wheel.

-- Chuck

 

Sumitomo HD Non-Sealed Connectors and Terminals

you can find nearly every connector for a honda here

 

thanks for the heads up.

cool.

 

I am very good with wiring, soldering, etc and love doing just about everything mechanical and electrical myself, but for the low price still just ordered the birdydog one for convenience.

For pinning, there are videos out there for just about every type of connector. Not hard to pin one.

 

Just a note: The cruse control uses the third brake light bulb as a resistor. Check your cruse control before you button up everything .

 

First I've seen this.

Isn't the 3d brake light a LED which has hardly any resistance? Putting LEDs into many other locations on cars causes hyperflash as the system thinks the bulbs are burned out.

-- Chuck

 

Well they "kinda" have high resistance. LEDS are not linear and are constant voltage devices. So below their turn on voltage they have very high resistance, once you reach their forward voltage then the voltage on the led remains the same and the rest of the voltage is dropped across the rest of the circuit, so if no resistor, that would look like a short. So if you put 12V across a 2V diode (LED in this case) and no resistor inline, then you have the remaining 10V dropped across the resistance of the wire and thus have created a short. So when using an LED you subtract its forward voltage (it is a diode) from the source, then use the remaining voltage and current you are targeting to calculate the proper resistance. Prob more info than some want when talking about this, but it makes it make a lot more sense overall.


But in terms of the cruise control, the brake light switch (connected to the pedal) is the input used to disengage cruise control. . Simply needs to know if the pedal is pressed. That circuit does not need to care at all about the bulb or led, nor should it since if that were the case and the bulbs were out, cruise would not disengage when the brake is pressed. Plus, no reason to do any of that when you have a switch telling you when the brake pedal is depressed.