Quote Originally Posted by Bitsyncmaster View Post
Looks nice but wasn't the whole point of the third brake light to be high so you get seen sooner. Over the years cars have been moving them lower and lower and it's just to save some money on manufacturing.
That's exactly why I first put a 3rd brake light on my D- so many cars these days can practically looks straight over the top of it without seeing the stock lights (anything truck/SUV-like that's way too close to your tail...), I wanted something higher up to catch their attention and (hopefully) not get rear-ended.

Dave, have you got a suggestion for a simple (solid-state, ideally) circuit that would allow one side of my setup to still blink with the turn signal while the other side was acting like a brake light? That's the one minor flaw with my current setup, that when the brake lights are lit the two strips that form the 3rd brake light stay on constantly since they're getting power from it and the intermittent feed from that flasher just get lost...