Models: all Swiss Army, Years: all

Did you ever have the uneasy feeling that your Pinz is almost invisible from the rear at night and that the nonstandard amber brake light won’t be recognized by the car behind you???

There’s another solution besides the conversion to standard tail lights which isn’t more expensive either! Get a set of four tail/brake/turn 24V or 12-24V tail lights and without changing the wiring you will have far more intense tail lights with the following function:
If you turn on the light all four tail lights will be on on normal intensity. If you hit the brake all four will go to high intensity. In case you operate the turn signal the two corresponding tail lights will flash. If brake and turn signal are operated at the same time 3 tail lights will be continuously on and the outer light on the appropriate side will flash.

Remark: this only works with the wiring the Swiss Army used. Unfortunately some don’t have the orange wire any more, during repair it may have been removed. In this case you can use the wire for the blackout light. Disconnect it from the light switch and wire it to the emergency flasher switch or master brake switch where the orange wire was supposed to be.

The orange wire is brake light only which is just fine for the inner lights. the black/green and black white are turn/brake and are just what we want to activate the outer lights. To make the inner ones operate as turn signal in case there is no brake signal the diodes combine/isolate the signals.

Contributed by Jürgen Schöpf

and how to build the housings:

While driving home over Blood Mtn after dark a weekend or two ago, I began to worry about one of those "go fasts" sliding around a switch back not noticing my dim tail lights and yellow brakes and into the rear of my Pinz. I wanted to change to LEDs like so many have done but didn't want to cut a 4"plus hole in my truck and the bracket type look awful.

I bought a pair of 4" LED tail/stop/turn lights that are marked 12/24 volts. The guy at the truck place checked and said that they were suppose to work on from 8-32 volts with no problem. After much thought, I found that a "4" schedule 40/60 PVC flat toped end cap and a 4" thin wall PVC clean out adapter fit together nicely. I removed part of the rim of the adapter so that the 4" LED unit would set down on the ledge and glued the light unit into the adapter. The adapter is a nice slip fit into the cap. I drilled the caps end to match the mounting bolt holes and the grommet hole of the Swiss tail light. After masking the lens and painting the whole thing OD green I was ecstatic. It looked great. A compact, surface mount LED tail light that looked like it belonged there!
 
 

Contributed by Tom Childers