Indicator flicker on welcome light coding

juggsy · 07-28-2019, 03:19 PM

Finally got round to doing some coding on my 4GC. One of the things I noticed you could do is code the indicators to come on with the welcome lights. I coded the fronts to come on and it looked very cool, because they are adaptive LED headlights it has the indicator as the 'eyebrow'.

However I noticed when the welcome lights turned off, the indicators flickered rapidly for a few seconds before they too turned off, like they were getting a dodgy voltage. I was worried if they did this every time it would damage them, so coded them back off.

Anyone seen this phenomenon? Any risk of damage if coded back on?

John in VA · 07-28-2019, 03:24 PM

Cold/warm monitoring can cause flickering of LEDs if you haven't turned those functions off.

juggsy · 07-28-2019, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by John in VA

Cold/warm monitoring can cause flickering of LEDs if you haven't turned those functions off.

No don't have this on as far as I can see.

And what I'm after should be possible without the flickering according to this:

japanwings · 07-29-2019, 09:35 AM

i think its because of the option "soft on/off" try "hard on/off"

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japanwings Private 118 Rep 83 Posts Drives: 2018 F36 Gran Coupe Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Belgium iTrader: (0)	i think its because of the option "soft on/off" try "hard on/off"
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