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<font face="verdana" size="2"><a href="/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24199" target="_blank">Link to original forum thread<br /></a><br />*Disclaimer* This DIY requires willingness to solder in very small and exact area. Not recomended for the beginner.<br /><br />But if you are willing to do this, this project can cost you anywere between $0.00 - $0.75, and time.<br />Will save you the $28+shipping hyperblinker.com charges.<br /><br />Needed supplies:<br />- solder + soldering iron<br />- #3 phillips<br />- nimble hands and needle nose pliers<br />- 100k ohm - 150k ohm resister. you can try different values, but I wouldn't suggest anything smaller than 100k<br />*smaller the numer = faster blink <br /><br />1. remove fuse pannel for easy access, requires phillips<br /><img src="/diyimages/1.jpg" /><br /><br />2. Find and remove Blinker relay. Watch out for the 2 tabs, bottom and top, spread and pull.<br /><img src="/diyimages/2.jpg" /><br /><br />3. Now open up the relay housing.<br /><img src="/diyimages/4.jpg" /><br /><br />4. find R1 on the pc board... notice it's the smallest resistor... get ready to soder!<br /><img src="/diyimages/5.jpg" /><br /><br />5. Now that you have sodered your resistor (I used 150k ohm - 5 finger discount from Fry's) in paralell with R1, I used electrical tape to protect the exposed components and just laid the resistor flat.<br /><img src="/diyimages/6.jpg" /><br /><br />6. Before you seal up the caseing, go plug it into your fuse panell and test it out... Hurray, you now have a rice, I mean hyperblinker!<br /><br />Now go show off at the races and remember, fast blinker = fast car <br /><br />Update:<br />I took the 150k off and instead wired some 30 gauge wire off the 133k and cut a hole in the top of the box and wired it to a 200k potentiometer.<br /><br />For those of you who don't know what a "pot" (potentiometer) is, it's basically an adjustable resistor. So a 200k pot will adjust from 0 ohms - 200k ohms. This way you can make your blink rate anywhere from almost normal to circut board frying fun fast.<br /><br /><br />Here's a pic installed.<br /><img src="/diyimages/hyperblinker-pot.jpg" /></font>

jmonroe0914

It appears Honda used a flasher relay manufactured by Tridon in the 01 civics as well, of which has completely different circuitry. If you have the Tridon relay, the correct resistor will be the small one (93k ohm, if I recall right) to the right of the microcontroller (black square microchip).

Rather than wiring in parallel (of which, with a 200k ohm resistor/pot/rheostat, drops the resistance to ~64k ohm), simply remove that 93k ohm resistor by de-soldering the two pins on the back of the board and solder in a 200k potentiometer instead (preferably a 200k .5w resistor). I used a cermet pot, which, due to the placement of pins, did not allow me to solder it directly to the pcb... in stead, I soldered two 20ga wires directly where the 93k resistor leads were and soldered the opposite end of each lead to the two leads on the pot (3rd pin on the pot is not needed).

You can buy different styles of 200k pots, and you should be able to find one whose pin placements allow for it to be soldered directly to the pcb.

Please be aware, if you choose to desolder the 93k ohm resistor from the board and choose to use a pot instead, you have two choices... either buy a 200k pot and set it at 200k, or you will need to buy a larger wattage pot. The wattage rating on a pot is the maximum wattage at the highest resistance value, so decreasing resistance will also decrease the wattage load it can handle. Since I had already bought 200k .5w pots, I used them, however a better way would have been to simply use a 200k .5w resistor if you chose to desolder the original 93k resistor from the board.

maluicoste

Very good mod, but if I want to control the hyperblinking to a normal speed even with led bulbs, what should I do?

thanks!