Turn Signal Reminder and Reverse Buzzer

I just started driving my jeep again after many years of it being in torn apart. With the location of reverse on the 3 speed transmission I am always afraid I will have it in reverse at a stop light not paying attention and tag the person behind me. :?

Also, with the manual turn signals I always seem to forget to turn them off .

So in both cases I wired a 12v buzzer to beep when in reverse or the turn signals are on. I used one buzzer for the turn signals and one buzzer for reverse.

The wiring of the reverse buzzer is straight forward. The red lead goes to the wire that shows 12v+ when in reverse and the black lead to ground.

The turn signals are a little more complicated if you want to use only one buzzer. If you wire the red lead on the buzzer to both turn signal 12v leads your turn signals will become hazard lights because they will all flash at the same time. You have to isolate the circuits, I did this using diodes. On my GM harness the turn signal wires were blue and lightblue at the steering column.

With some heat shrink and zip ties the whole thing is tucked up under the dash.





Radio Shack 12VDC Buzzer

 

That's a good idea. You really only needed one buzzer tho. The reverse switch with 12v applied to one side and the other going to the red on buzzer would not effect the turns with the diodes in there. Thats unless you wanted a diff sounding buzzer for each. But still a good idea. I might do that to mine although my T-sig has the cancelling wheel, I can't hear the flasher clicking and can't see the light flashing in the daytime.

 

Thanks Walt...

I used one buzzer for the reverse and one for the turn signals. You are correct, I could have used one buzzer for all of it but the wiring locations were different so it was easier to just use two buzzers.

 

I did this exact thing on my Motorcycle, because a left on turn signal can be a death sentence. I used a full wave bridge rectifier (4 diodes in one package) on mine though and a shrill beeper so as to be heard at speed.

 

I need one of these my blinker doesn't always self cancel, so i drive around with a blinker going like an old man.