How it Works
Light Chaos WITHOUT Headlight Flash Function
The Light Chaos System is controlled via one wire coming from the ADE system. If you built your own ADE system, I will be telling you later where you need to install this wire on your ADE system so that it can be wired into and control the Light Chaos system.
If you purchased the ADE-II system, the control interface wire has already been provided via a crimp on connector located near the ADE-II relay.
The ADE interface comes into this circuit on the bottom right side of the circuit diagram. (Please see the above drawing.)
Three Modes:
There are three modes in which the Jeep?s lighting system and Light Chaos must work correctly. Here they are and how they work through the circuit.
Ignition Off Mode (Key off)
When the ignition key is off, there is no ignition power to the Jeep. This means the ADE Control wire will be at zero (0) volts.
In this mode the Jeep lighting system will work exactly as engineered by Jeep, including the headlights.
Let?s walk through the circuit.
With no ignition power coming from the ADE System (the key is off remember and no one is currently hot wiring your Jeep), Power is available to the headlights from the Jeep fuse, through contacts 30 and 87a (N/C) of the P1 (power) relay.
This current is then available to the Headlight Switch and the High/Low Beam switch.
If you choose to put your lights on they will work as they do right now, both high and low beam.
All lights on your Jeep will function exactly as they do right now. Some will work with the ignition key off (Headlights, Hazard/Warning, Brake Lights etc.) and some won?t (Directional and Back-up lights). Just like the factory says they should.
When the ignition key is off and there is no power to the Light Chaos circuit all components shown in the circuit diagram are dormant and out of the picture. From an electrical perspective they are not even installed on your Jeep.
Ignition ON ? ADE Disabled Mode
When the ignition key is on, or your Jeep?s ignition has been hot-wired AND the ADE System HAS NOT been enabled by swiping the magnet, Light Chaos will be active and your lights will flash in the designed pattern.
In this mode, a +12 volt control current will be supplied from the ADE system to energize the Relay Coil of the Power Relay, (P1).
This will cause the relay to switch from the Normally Closed Contacts to the Normally Open Contact, connecting contact 30 to contact 87. This action disconnects the Jeep Headlights from their power source, rendering the Headlight inoperable, and routes the current to the Light Chaos System to cause it to become active.
Let?s walk through how this happens while looking at the circuit drawing.
Power will flow from the battery through the Jeep?s Headlight fuse. From there it will flow through the P1 (power control) relay contact 30 to contact 87 (Remember the relay coil is now energized by the ADE Control wire).
Current flowing through the Power Control Relay (P1) will continue through the newly added Light Chaos Fuse to the ?X? pin of the Electronic Alternating Flasher (EAF).
Approximately 1.0 second after power is applied to the ?X? pin the EAF it will begin to send current through the L1 and L2 output pins in an alternating fashion.
First 12 volts will be sent to the ?L1? pin with the ?L2? pin sitting at zero (0) volts, then the ?L1? pin will go to zero (0) volts while 12 volts are supplied to the ?L2? pin. This is called a ?wig-wag? pattern. The pattern will flash approximately 90 times per minute.
The diodes (labeled 1, 3 and 5) connected the ?L1? pin and those (labeled 2 and 4) connected to the ?L2? pin of the EAF will be wired to separate and distinct lighting systems on the Jeep.
The diodes act as one-way valves, allowing current to flow from the EAF to the Jeep lights, but will prevent current from flowing from the Jeep lighting systems back to the EAF when these lights are switched on from the dashboard.
These diodes electrically isolate the Light Chaos System from the Jeep?s electrical system, and they are required. Do not leave them out.
Each diode is connected via a wire and a 3-M ?T? tap into a specific Jeep lighting system wire. I will provide exact ?T? tap location by model year later.
When the Electronic Alternating Flasher has power (+12 volts) on the ?L1? pin, all the Jeep lighting systems connected to that terminal will light up and stay that way until the ?L1? pin voltage drops to zero.
The same is true for the lights hooked up to the ?L2? pin. On and off they will flash!
Given this design, as pin ?L1? receives power (+12 volts) and drops power (0 volts) the following lights will blink on and off.
- Passenger side Front Directional and Side Marker
- Driver side Rear Directional
- Both Back-up Lights
Pin ?L2? will receive power (+12 volts) and drop power (0 volts) in a pattern opposite that of pin ?L1?.
Given this design these lights hooked up to ?L2? will blink on and off.
- Driver side Front Directional and Side Marker
- Passenger side Rear Directional
Ignition ON ? ADE Enabled Mode
When the Ignition key is ?On? AND you have ?Enabled? the ADE System by swiping the magnet over the hidden reed switch, all Jeep lights return to their factory function. The entire Light Chaos System is electrically isolated from the Jeep?s lighting system and effectively not even installed.
Check it out in the circuit drawing.
The ADE Control wire will be at zero (0) volts.
At zero volts on the ADE Control wire the Power Relay is at rest. Current is now available to the headlights from the Jeep fuse, through contacts 30 and 87a (N/C) of the P1 (power) relay.
This current is then available to the Headlight Switch and the High/Low Beam switch.
If you choose to put your lights on they will work as they do right now, both high and low beam, as will all other lights on your Jeep as they are all 100% electrically isolated from the Light Chaos system.
Light Chaos WITH Headlight Flash Function
I designed the Light Chaos System to meet the needs or desires of various folks. Some might like the system I have just explained while others will want more.
Here is a means to add your Jeep Headlights to the system. Please note, flashing the headlights in this manner will draw a lot more current from your battery. You need to consider this factor before installing the Headlight Flash Function.
In this design, the Driver Side Low Beam and Passenger Side High Beam will alternate on and off in cadence with the other Light Chaos lights.
Here is a drawing of the Light Chaos System With the Headlight Flash Function added to it.
Please do not get excited, this circuit drawing is not very complex. It only looks that way. Most of the wiring to add the Headlight Flash Function is already on your Jeep. You will be adding a few extra wires (see the colored wires) and two relays (with sockets and recommended diodes across the coils.)
The two additional relays are used to isolate the Light Chaos System from the Jeep lighting systems and to isolate each headlight from the other (Left Low Beam from Right Low Beam, and Left High Beam from Right High Beam).
This is needed to enable the ability to blink each light and each high beam / low beam circuit independently.
Let?s take a look how it works.
The Light Chaos System, with Headlight Flash Function, is also completely controlled by the ADE Control wire.
When the ADE control wire has +12 volts on it, the Power Relay (P1), Low Beam Relay (Low1) and High Beam Relay (High1) Coil will be energized. This causes the current to flow through the Normally Open (pin 87) contacts through to Pin 30 contacts activating the entire system.
This relay activation disconnects and segregates both Jeep headlights electrically and mechanically from each other.
When the ADE Control wire drops to Zero (0) volts, all relay coils de-energize and the Jeep?s Headlights are restored to normal operations.
Here?s how it works whenever someone tries to start the Jeep before swiping the magnet.
Power flows from the battery through the Jeep?s Headlight fuse and then through the P1 (power control) relay contact 30 to contact 87 (Remember the relay coil is energized now connecting these contacts.)
Once through the Power (P1) Relay, current will flow through the newly added Light Chaos fuse (25-amps if you are adding the headlight flash function) and into the ?X? pin of the Electronic Alternating Flasher.
Given this design, as pin ?L1? receives power (+12 volts) and drops power (0 volts) the following lights will blink on and off.
- Passenger side Front Directional and Side Marker
- Driver side Rear Directional
- Both Back-up Lights
AND
- Driver Side Low Beam Headlight
Pin ?L2? will receive power (+12 volts) and drop power (0 volts) in a pattern opposite that of pin ?L1?.
Given this design, these lights hooked up to ?L2? will blink on and off.
- Driver side Front Directional and Side Marker
- Passenger side Rear Directional
AND
- Passenger Side High Beam Headlight
I need some time to take a few pictures of the components and to compile the wiring ?tap-in? points for each model year TJ.
You can expect this next, followed by an outline as to how to install this.
Have a great day, I plan to!
Frank