BSKT Design LED Ponies

[Jimrpa]

I would have written back this morning, but I was busy embarrassing myself at a charity golf tournament.

And if anyone was wondering, retiring and practicing golf on a regular basis might not improve your game. I gave up the high blood pressure of work to have the high blood pressure of golf. (But I still made the right choice!). Ha!

Retirement is definitely the right choice! Golf was always too frustrating for me.

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[AllTheThings55]

Mine was shipped, but the zip code got messed up somewhere along the line so Bruce with BSKT is going to ship me another one (first one was returned to sender).

More waiting, but I’m sure it will be worth it!

 

[Jimrpa]

Pretty sure you still have to remove all the frunk innards to get to one of the headlight harnesses to plug it in. By then you've done 70% of the work. But if it doesn't work, at least you haven't removed the OG pony, so you have the option of putting everything back and live to fight another day.

That’s kind of what I thought. I was hoping it might be possible to get to the headlamp connector through one of the hatches at the front of the frunk ?‍

 

[Mr. Toejam]

Yes, hold off for a day or so. Will try to get to the bottom of this. ?

I’ll test mine tomorrow. The black box is new. Ferrite Bead to help with noise?

Since I am replacing my V1 front Pony (bottom half of LEDs died and Bruce sent a replacement) I can test 3 ways.

1. I will test just the V2 pony with my original “modified harness” since I know it works.
2. I will test the new harness with the old V1 pony.
3. I will test the new harness and the V2 pony.

Stay tuned.

 

[Gungrave223]

I was able to successfully install the front pony this evening... But I did have an issue with the wire being too short making connecting it to the splitter harder than it needed to be. And when trying to move it out the way so I can reinstall the frunk... the tab on one of the connector broke off causing the wire to fall out...I just taped it to the other wire and hope it stay put (it won't but that's future me problem)

It was too hot out to do the rear but the hope is to do it tomorrow evening and hope I have an easier time with wiring.

 

[Mr. Toejam]

That’s kind of what I thought. I was hoping it might be possible to get to the headlamp connector through one of the hatches at the front of the frunk ?‍

Sorry. No short cut to the headlight. Think of it as a rite of passage.

If you have a 12v DC power supply, you can light up the pony. Or a 9v battery will dimmly (sp?) light it up. You can “borrow” one from the smoke detector. Ha! White goes to positive.

 

[markboris]

Anybody have one of the front pony’s installed yet? Everything is pretty straightforward and plug and play. Except for the putting the connector on the end of the wires on the pony. I fiddled around with the wires for a while trying to get them to stay in the connector end. Finally when I thought I got them secure I plugged in and tried it no lighted pony. I had white to white wire and black to black. I messed around for probably 2 hrs with no luck trouble shooting. Finally I took the connector end back off and just connected the wire end to the pins. No luck just gave up. Anyway just curious if anybody else had issues. Thanks

Hmmmm, did anyone install one of these from this batch successfully? Was going to do it tomorrow, but thinking I should hold off for conformation of more positive outcomess ?

I’ll test mine tomorrow. The black box is new. Ferrite Bead to help with noise?

Since I am replacing my V1 front Pony (bottom half of LEDs died and Bruce sent a replacement) I can test 3 ways.

1. I will test just the V2 pony with my original “modified harness” since I know it works.
2. I will test the new harness with the old V1 pony.
3. I will test the new harness and the V2 pony.

Stay tuned.

Ok, everyone, Bruce found the issue with some of the front ponies not lighting with the "high" headlamp connectors. He has not looked into the "low" headlamp connectors yet but will do so soon.

Some of the "high" connectors had a wire that was mis-wired.

For those that want to fix it themselves, look at the photo below. If you would rather have a correctly wired connector, let me know and will send one out to you.

Below is a photo of the "high" headlamp connector. The little black box has a black and white wire coming out of it on one end going into the connector. On incorrectly wired connectors, the white wire coming from the black box is connected to the wire circled in red. It should be connected to the wire circled in green. You just need to move if from the wire circled in Red to the wire circled in green.

One note, that little black box is a voltage reducer for the lighted pony. DO NOT connect the pony directly to 12V as it will burn out the LED's.

 

[dc73pdsgt]

Ok, everyone, Bruce found the issue with some of the front ponies not lighting with the "high" headlamp connectors. He has not looked into the "low" headlamp connectors yet but will do so soon.

Some of the "high" connectors had a wire that was mis-wired.

For those that want to fix it themselves, look at the photo below. If you would rather have a correctly wired connector, let me know and will send one out to you.

Below is a photo of the "high" headlamp connector. The little black box has a black and white wire coming out of it on one end going into the connector. On incorrectly wired connectors, the white wire coming from the black box is connected to the wire circled in red. It should be connected to the wire circled in green. You just need to move if from the wire circled in Red to the wire circled in green.

One note, that little black box is a voltage reducer for the lighted pony. DO NOT connect the pony directly to 12V as it will burn out the LED's.

I’ve confirmed mine is incorrectly wired as per the above diagram. Before I go screwing with relocating it I just want to confirm that this is the fix for it not working correctly. Please advise asap.

 

[Brucelee]

Ok, everyone, Bruce found the issue with some of the front ponies not lighting with the "high" headlamp connectors. He has not looked into the "low" headlamp connectors yet but will do so soon.

Some of the "high" connectors had a wire that was mis-wired.

For those that want to fix it themselves, look at the photo below. If you would rather have a correctly wired connector, let me know and will send one out to you.

Below is a photo of the "high" headlamp connector. The little black box has a black and white wire coming out of it on one end going into the connector. On incorrectly wired connectors, the white wire coming from the black box is connected to the wire circled in red. It should be connected to the wire circled in green. You just need to move if from the wire circled in Red to the wire circled in green.

One note, that little black box is a voltage reducer for the lighted pony. DO NOT connect the pony directly to 12V as it will burn out the LED's.

Thank you! I told you this before the forum is lucky to have you and so is Bruce. In my hours of screwing around with the pony I broke off the connectors on the pony like Gungrave223 did. That’s on me should have just messaged for help and waited. But patience sometimes isn’t a virtue I have.

 

[markboris]

I’ve confirmed mine is incorrectly wired as per the above diagram. Before I go screwing with relocating it I just want to confirm that this is the fix for it not working correctly. Please advise asap.

Yes Mark, that is the fix as per the photo I posted.

 

[Mr. Toejam]

Ok, everyone, Bruce found the issue with some of the front ponies not lighting with the "high" headlamp connectors. He has not looked into the "low" headlamp connectors yet but will do so soon.

Some of the "high" connectors had a wire that was mis-wired.

For those that want to fix it themselves, look at the photo below. If you would rather have a correctly wired connector, let me know and will send one out to you.

Below is a photo of the "high" headlamp connector. The little black box has a black and white wire coming out of it on one end going into the connector. On incorrectly wired connectors, the white wire coming from the black box is connected to the wire circled in red. It should be connected to the wire circled in green. You just need to move if from the wire circled in Red to the wire circled in green.

One note, that little black box is a voltage reducer for the lighted pony. DO NOT connect the pony directly to 12V as it will burn out the LED's.

Thanks for the follow up (Mark and Bruce). Interesting about the black box. If the front pony needs a voltage less than 12v, what about the rear pony?

This is 2 mis-wires in a row. BSKT really needs to invest in a simple go/no-go test fixture for the harnesses.

 

[Mr.GVAK]

Yes Mark, that is the fix as per the photo I posted.

Hi Mark, did Bruce happen to identify the issue with the low configuration setup?

 

[markboris]

Thanks for the follow up (Mark and Bruce). Interesting about the black box. If the front pony needs a voltage less than 12v, what about the rear pony?

This is 2 mis-wires in a row. BSKT really needs to invest in a simple go/no-go test fixture for the harnesses.

The rear pony does not need a voltage reduction as it uses 12V LED's. No black box.

Yes, I think Bruce is overloaded with all he has to do. Feel bad for him but at the same time these things should not happen. Not to mention, the European and Chinese connectors are also different from each other and from the US. ?

 

[markboris]

Hi Mark, did Bruce happen to identify the issue with the low configuration setup?

He is working on that right now. Been talking with him this morning about it. I will post when he lets me know. Sorry for all of this hassle.

 

[Mr.GVAK]

He is working on that right now. Been talking with him this morning about it. I will post when he lets me know. Sorry for all of this hassle.

Nothing to be sorry about. I appreciate the

He is working on that right now. Been talking with him this morning about it. I will post when he lets me know. Sorry for all of this hassle.

No worries at all.

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