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Unread 08-01-2009, 10:25
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Re: Diagnostic Light

Al is right, shorting the La and Lb terminals allow the DSC to control the light.

If you play around with it a bit, you find that when contacting one terminal (I forgot if it is La or Lb), the light flashes with some internal mechanism. When shorting the terminals, the light is steadily on. So, shorting La and Lb allow the pulses from the DSC to flash the light. This allows the "fast flash" (disconnected), the "slow flash" (connected but disabled), and "steady on" (connected and enabled).

Also, our light drew about 1.3A when on.

-Jeff