08 Oct 97 18:05, Puleeeeze Brer Day Brown, Dooooon't trow signal schmatic in 
dat der Briar Patch!
 DB> Hopefully, Roy, you have an MS DOS machine with the normal Hi-ascii
 DB> box characters, and however this gets to you, hopefully these hi
 DB> ascii characters will not get stripped out.
Came through ok...thanks.
 DB> These diodes have about .6 or .7 volt drop going thru them; with a
 DB> 12 volt system, a bulb that gets 11.3 volts is obviously dimmer. As
 DB> the flasher sends a charge thru the wire, it gets to the junction
 DB> where brake wire goes to the bulb, and the diode blocks the current
 DB> from going back up the wire to the bulb on the other side, so it can
 DB> only light the turning side.
Hmmmmm. What if you used a voltage doubler circuit ahead of the diode and 
then reostat it down to the 12 volts required to keep the bulbs bright, after 
the diode?
 DB> The same trick works on the speedometer hi beam indicator; that bulb
 DB> too glows a bit dimmer with a diode in the line from the headlite
 DB> switch -which i didn't show- and then gets brighter with the feed
 DB> from a three prong flasher.
Maybe a voltage doubler for the whole circuit?
... "I suggest a new strategy R2. Let the Wookie win." - C3PO
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