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Josue, did your hyperflashing continue after a shut down and restart? Wondering if the circuitry overheated or had a short, or possibly a defective unit?
Keep us posted on what you find out, are you going through Oracle or another vendor? Hopefully Oracle can make this right and explain what happened here.

Or maybe just a bad connection??
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I was able to replicate the issue again the following day. I am still attempting to do a return to the vendor. I purchased from vividracing.com. I'm trying to return rather than exchange though. I think I will try diode dynamics bulbs instead. Not sure if defect or overheat. Might be overheat since both the white running light was on and the blinker had been on for a few minutes.
 

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I was able to replicate the issue again the following day. I am still attempting to do a return to the vendor. I purchased from vividracing.com. I'm trying to return rather than exchange though. I think I will try diode dynamics bulbs instead. Not sure if defect or overheat. Might be overheat since both the white running light was on and the blinker had been on for a few minutes.
Both the turn and DRL lights should not be on at the same time, are you saying that you had two colors illuminated simultaneously?
 

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Both the turn and DRL lights should not be on at the same time, are you saying that you had two colors illuminated simultaneously?
Yes, The way these are designed, they when the turn signal is activated, the bulb keeps the white leds on while blinking the amber leds. Other designs on the market will alternate the colors. I have not modified any of my wiring yet as I had not reached that point. This is completely stock functionality for the bulbs.

Edit: The white leds are only on when the rest of the headlights are on. When headlights off, just the amber blink when turn signal used. That is what I meant by me not having rigged up DRLs yet.
 

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Yes, The way these are designed, they when the turn signal is activated, the bulb keeps the white leds on while blinking the amber leds. Other designs on the market will alternate the colors. I have not modified any of my wiring yet as I had not reached that point. This is completely stock functionality for the bulbs.

Edit: The white leds are only on when the rest of the headlights are on. When headlights off, just the amber blink when turn signal used. That is what I meant by me not having rigged up DRLs yet.
Yes, The way these are designed, they when the turn signal is activated, the bulb keeps the white leds on while blinking the amber leds. Other designs on the market will alternate the colors. I have not modified any of my wiring yet as I had not reached that point. This is completely stock functionality for the bulbs.

Edit: The white leds are only on when the rest of the headlights are on. When headlights off, just the amber blink when turn signal used. That is what I meant by me not having rigged up DRLs yet.
Hmm, that’s not a switchback at all then.
 

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Mine are white for the DRL and switch to yellow when turn signal flashes,they are never on at the same time
 

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Mine are white for the DRL and switch to yellow when turn signal flashes,they are never on at the same time
As far as I can tell, that's what should happen.
 

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First off, big shout-out to Rhinebeck01 & American Jeeper for their help & tips!

This DIY setup will allow you to run full time DRLs w/ active turn signal switchbacks on your headlights/fenders on a JL Sport. This will allow you to use your auto-headlight function full time, so no need to switch your parking light on & off to activate DRLs.

I used (and HIGHLY recommend) Oracle Led Fender Switchbacks (thanks American Jeeper!), these can be found at Oracles site or a bit cheaper from Vividracing.com or horsepowerfreaks.com These switchbacks have CANBUS circuitry built in and WILL NOT hyperflash or show a bulb-out display. They are plenty bright in the white and even brighter for the amber turn light. https://www.oraclelights.com/produc...switchback-high-output-can-bus-led-bulbs-pair

If you want to gamble on cheaper ebay bulbs be sure they are 7443 CK bulbs, they must have the CK socket, regular 7443 bulbs are the wrong polarity. And all that I've seen will require an extra resistor wired in so you won't hyperflash. By the time you add that cost into it you're spending as much as the Oracles for an inferior product, so just a heads-up on that!

NO FENDER REMOVAL NEEDED, just remove the one plug clip on the front inner fender and the 10mm bolt further back in the fender liner. A counter clockwise turn to remove bulb socket and PRESTO!

I have the Sii Turbo split-halo LED headlights w/ SUP-light adapter mounts. The mounts come w/ the JL to JK wiring harness adapter and the lights come w/ the 3 pin adapter and the CANBUS anti-flicker adapter. Luckily there's plenty of room behind the lights because you MUST use all three adapter harnesses.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0781MXXXD
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KS7769Q

You must source a 12v fuse that's not being used, fuse #57 is a common choice, this is for heated seats, so if you do have heated seats you'll have to find another place to tap or be sure that both fuses are in the tap socket.

Micro Fuse tap, comes with two taps and 4 fuses, nice set.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LFXA5YQ

Here's a pic of the wiring in the fuse box, this allows you to route it in that outer channel to keep wire tucked away, you then wire outside the box (zip-tied to the middle power cable) then routed along the passenger side of the engine bay. This will allow you to close the fuse box lid and no modifications to the lid.

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You will use this 12v source to run into your DRL wire on your headlights (you will run wire down passenger side, tap to passenger DRL, run behind grill in front upper radiator area over to drivers side DRL) and splice off that wire to the white/brown wire on each fender bulb. You will cut the white/brown wire about 2" from the fender bulb socket (put a dead splice on the end going back to the fuse box) and butt splice into that wire.

For your turn signal you will use a T-Tap (best to keep it easy & waterproof) into the White/Green wire, again, about 2" up from bulb socket, you WILL NOT cut this wire, just tap into it. This will go to your Amber halo wire for turn signal switchback function on your headlight halo, mine was a yellow wire from headlight harness (if equipped)

You can run both wires from the fender into the engine bay through that hole in the fender liner, just shine a flashlight through that hole and you'll see how it can thread through. I taped the wires to the end of a long screwdriver and pushed it through that hole to route them through. You then push the wires through the fender liner so you can reach up behind the liner and get them back down to where the socket is. Hope that makes sense :)

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I didn't do it since the DRLs are dominated by the headlights, so leaving them on all the time is no biggie, but if you want to be able to switch your DRLs off you can add one of these switches between the fuse tap & your DRLs and mount it in an area below your steering wheel in that extra room on one of the plastic panels.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007B86Z94

And the final video, going from Ignition ON w/ auto-light function (Engine running OR not running), then turn signals, then flashers, then auto-light off but headlights on, then wipers just because I was grasping for anything at that point, lol. Any questions just post up here.

I followed your guide. Thanks. Installed mine Today

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/kiwi-master-9-jl-led-lights.26453/#post-714472
 
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In the Tazer settings I made sure my side lights were enabled as well.


My DRL setup.

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Brian - This is an amazing setup, what exactly did you do in Tazr settings? I have below specific questions.

Are the fender lights shown "blinker" OR "parking"? They seem amber so I am inclined to say "blinker", please confirm.

If the fender lights are blinkers (working as DRL), what happens when you turn on the blinkers?

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Brian - This is an amazing setup, what exactly did you do in Tazr settings? I have below specific questions.

Are the fender lights shown "blinker" OR "parking"? They seem amber so I am inclined to say "blinker", please confirm.

If the fender lights are blinkers (working as DRL), what happens when you turn on the blinkers?

Thank you,
If you use the Tazer to set your drl location to turns, and then switch on the turn signal, it flashes. That’s it.
 

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I was finally able to get this done today! Thanks everyone who contributed information and of course huge thanks to the OP!
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I was finally able to get this done today! Thanks everyone who contributed information and of course huge thanks to the OP!
Pics below!

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Looking good, glad it worked out. Post some night pics when you can.
 

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Hello,

@blnewt So i was looking into buying these oracle leds for my turn signal. I dont want them to be DRL, but just light up when auto lights come up.
I looked into your recommendation - https://www.oraclelights.com/produc...switchback-high-output-can-bus-led-bulbs-pair


The description says "• No need for Load Equalizers or Resistors" & they are plug and play, but whats ur experience with these have been? Do i need a resistor for real?


I already have marker lights as my DRL. so only looking to use along with headlights on and turn signals

Thanks!

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Had no issues w/ mine, no hyperflashing or "bulb-out" warnings. Should be a simple plug-n-play for what you're wanting.
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