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Old 01-29-2007, 02:09 PM
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Default DIY HOW-TO: SIMPLE HEADLIGHT WARNING BEEPER

Want your CRX or EF to beep when you leave the lights on?

Got about $7 for materials?

This is an easy old trick mentioned here and there, but its often done incorrectly by shoving wires underneath fuses. There is a better way to do it, and I've written it up for posterity.

http://www.hondaworkshop.com/m...ning/
Old 01-29-2007, 03:28 PM
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damn cant get any easier than that , I have no doubt that someone on H-t will still F it up.
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Is it really that easy? has anybody tried this yet?
Old 01-29-2007, 03:41 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by I CRX I &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Is it really that easy? has anybody tried this yet?</TD></TR></TABLE>

yes, obviously fireant has
Old 01-29-2007, 03:44 PM
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does seem alittle too easy to be true...but why not ill try it.
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Gunna try this tonite, and try that kill switch too
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wow left my lights on today at school so this should be a must for me hehehe.....heehe
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Crx Jimmy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">damn cant get any easier than that , I have no doubt that someone on H-t will still F it up. </TD></TR></TABLE> My car caught fire and burnt out the 4th floor of the parking garage. I hate you all
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Old 01-29-2007, 04:21 PM
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awesome.
i vote this thread for sticky material
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dr_latino999 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> My car caught fire and burnt out the 4th floor of the parking garage. I hate you all </TD></TR></TABLE>

I second that!

lol
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My car caught on fire and burnt down the 1-10th floors on my parking deck, prepare for legal action.
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this is sweet, but i still dont get how it indicates that the headlights are still on if your just pluging the beeper into those 2 slots only

if i did read right
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thats funny if its that easy why didnt honda do it. but i think if youve been driving hondas for a while you know theres no warning and you turn your lights off even when they are allready off. atleast i do.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by e jay one &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">thats funny if its that easy why didnt honda do it. but i think if youve been driving hondas for a while you know theres no warning and you turn your lights off even when they are allready off. atleast i do.</TD></TR></TABLE>

damn penny scrunchers!
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Ive been meaning to do this for years. Now I may actually do it.
Good sticky material.
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i did it 3 weeks ago. super simple and a battery saver
Old 01-29-2007, 06:22 PM
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Same here, I did the same thing a couple months ago, everyone at work thought I was crazy and then I showed them when I had found the right connectors and everything. Had the same thing done on my old EG also. I first did it on my EG after I had killed the battery 2 or 3 times.

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It works perfectly...one of those really nice easter eggs on EF's. I dont claim to be the person who figured it out.

I believe those slots were meant to power some kind of accessory (fog light relay?) that actually worked in some other way. Its just a coincidence that they make a closed curcuit when the lights are on and the keys are off.
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did it today..... works kool.. paid 3 dollars and sum change for the buzzer over at radio shack... took me about 20 min to do solder the two wires and install nice feature!!!! thanks
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for some reason this didnt work for me. but the buzzer I use came with a headlight buzzer kit meant to conect to fuses. so maybe its little different? I just hooked it back up to the fuses, i hate looking at that, its cheesy. i wanted this method to work!
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lol.... i one of those people who did it incorrectly by sticking wire underneath fuses.

That method has been working fine for 4 years... *shrug*
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Subscribed...I'm going to try this.
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funny. ive had my headlight warning beeper for the past 8 years (after first leaving my lights on and draining my battery in my first year of ownership), but i didnt do it this way. theres a combination of fuses that you bridge and just stick the bare ends of the wire into (no plug required) and will trigger just like a headlight warning. i dont know off the top of my head what those fuses are, but i thought everyone knew about it....
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i jsut did it in about 5 minutes. heres how it looks for me:



the wires correspond as follows

beeper red wire -&gt; right plug (my red clip)
beeper black wire -&gt; left plug (my blue clip)

works perfectly.
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So I just had to see if i could get this method to work with a different buzzer. I got a piezo 12 volt dc buzzer and it works, and it sounds alot more pleasant too.

so the reason using fuses is incorrect/bad is the slot gets stretched out from the clips that connect to the fuse, making it larger. I had to tweek the fuses that i had used so they work/make contact. I also noticed my car starts without a fuse for the starter signal,wtf? does this mean wiring problems?


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