conqust taillights

[JohnF]

To play with this thing after dark in Wyoming I need brakelights/taillights. I see a kit online (around $25) but it looks like it is for the conquest with the T handle steering. Anyone here set a couple of switches up serially to operate brakelights on a two lever steering machine?

I'm sure the tailight part of the kit will work just fine.

Whoops, I see I mispelled conquest in the thread title and apparently I can't fix it.

[thebuggyman1]

On dunebuggies, a pressure switch is typically inserted in the brake line. Do you have Hydraulic brakes? Dune Buggy Parts, Sand Rail and Volkswagen Parts | appletreeauto.com

You would need two, one on each side and hook them up in parallel not series......in series BOTH would need to be activated to supply power to the lights. In parallel, EITHER switch being activated would allow power to the lights.

[JoeMeg]

Interesting that this subject surfaced. I have given many hours of thought into a brake lite switch system for my conquest also. Even have a 1/2 dozzen asst'd pairs of microswitches that I eyballed in there quite a few times. Strangly, I allways seem to revert back to the same thought school as thebuggyman1 and believe that in line pressure switches wired in series are the ideal set-up.

Joe.

[JohnF]

...in series BOTH would need to be activated to supply power to the lights...

You aren't "braking" unless you are pulling both. (Oh yeah, forgot your question: Yes, hydraulic.)

Heard from a dealer that the kit I saw is tail lights only.

[russriders]

I got 2 led tail light from the truck stop on my Argo conquest the way I got just run them with my head light no brake light

[racerone3]

you could just get 2 automotive style brake light switches, and mount them so that the switch is activated whenever you pull back on the sticks.

[thebuggyman1]

You aren't "braking" unless you are pulling both.

OK, I'm easy....It's series then!

[JohnF]

OK, I'm easy....It's series then!

I got to thinking about it a bit and thought it might be kind of cool if the left lever activated the left light and the right lever the right light. People could tell I was turning. Put a flasher in the circuit even. (flashing brake lights)

Your link didn't keep the search parameters. I found the pressure switches and thought "cool, that's not too expensive." Then I started putting together a list of the stuff necessary to put them in.

I do wonder if the Wyoming rangers will accept "They don't make brake lights for this model Argo."