JohnL Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 My TR7 V8 pop ups work fine except, on daylight flash, the lights come on but have gone off by the time they have popped up! Whilst up, the lights will come on while holding the daylight flasher. The main dashboard switch works fine. It's driving me nuts trying to find the problem. Any ideas anyone....please. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peejay4A Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 Pektron relay faulty? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John390 Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 I thought that was normal. You have to hold the flash till the lights are up! Cheers John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnL Posted May 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 The Pektron has been checked every which way and appears to be fine. It seems impossible to buy a new Pektron now. Would if I could. The pop ups used to work with lights coming on as they begin to rise and going off as they fall. Not any more! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
unclepete Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 (edited) The headlamp flasher, via the indicator stalk has a pop up delay of a few seconds, however if you don't keep the stalk pulled back the lights go off. If you briefly flash the lights and let go, the pop ups will continue to rise, hold for a few seconds, then drop. Edited May 24, 2016 by unclepete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AnthonyF Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 The Pektron is only there to hold the pods in the up position for a few seconds. On my car, although the lights do flash on the initial pull of the stalk, I have always found it necessary to give a second pull to flash once the pods are fully up. Or as mentioned by Peter hold the stalk back until the pods are up rather than a quick pull & let go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John390 Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 I thought that is what I had already said! Cheers John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnL Posted May 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 Thanks for your replies. I really thought that the lights stayed on briefly once up. Ah well! It seems to me to be a poor design if you need to pull the stalk twice to make the flash. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John390 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 (edited) You pull it ONCE then hold it till the lights come up! Cheers John Edited May 25, 2016 by John390 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wayne Scott Posted May 26, 2016 Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 Solving this would be an intereresting little project for someone good at solid state electronics! My late uncle David would have loved to have invented a cure for this. The circuit would have to know when the lights reached the fully up position, then at that moment flash them before the pektron relay retracts the pods again (about 3 secs on mine). Pretty nifty mod! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stuart Posted May 26, 2016 Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 What system is on the Mk1 MX5 could that be adapted? Stuart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RobH Posted May 26, 2016 Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 Very easy to do - you just need an on-delay timer relay something like this: http://www.12voltplanet.co.uk/adjustable-delay-timer-relay-delay-on-or-off-12v-10a.html If you power it from the output of the Pektron relay it will delay before switching on and then turn off again when the Pektron removes the power to the motor. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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