[aft_cart]

Hello! First post here and I'm hoping someone can help me figure out if I'm seeing the correct behavior of this light kit. I bought a used cart recently and have been doing a little re-hab and updating since getting it. The cart is a 2012 CC Precedent. It already had a madjax LED light kit installed with the tail lights/bucket harness. I purchased the ultimate upgrade kit in order to add turn signals, horn, and brake lights (in order to come into compliance with the county regs for using the cart).

Since the cart already had a madjax kit on it, the install seemed to go pretty easy. Mostly plug and play really. Followed the directions, attached the new harness to the existing light kit harness. Swapped out the rocker switch for the new one, connected the purple wire to the brown wire. added a jumper wire to connect the two "larger female spade connectors" per the instructions (I think they were both shades of blue). plugged in the brake pad to the existing bullet connectors from the bucket harness below the floor board.

Almost everything seems to work properly. rocker switch activates the hazards, turn signals work, horn works, and switching the lights on from the turn signal assembly works fine.

Here's the weird part, and I'm trying to determine if this is normal: when the brake pedal is depressed, the brake lights get brighter as expected. However, whenever the brake pedal is depressed, the bottom row of LED lights light up on the headlight also. I'm assuming this is possibly a daytime running light of some sort. its the same strip of lights the light up with the orange blinkers if you turn on the hazard lights (as opposed to the whole headlight being on). Has anyone seen this before? Is that normal behavior for this light kit? If the front headlights are on when the brake is depressed, there is no visible change in headlight.

Also, the rocker switch has an LED light on it that does not seem to light up when the switch is on, despite the fact that it activates the hazard lights when flipped. The previous rocker switch was for switching the lights on/off and that LED would light up in the switch when the lights were on.

Sorry for the long winded post! I'm new to carts so I don't have a point of reference yet as to whether or not this is behaving correctly.

edit: one other item I thought I'd mention that I noticed... the light kit is getting 16v since there's no reducer installed that I can find. It's a 6 8v battery setup with the light kit being powered by the last 2 batteries. I checked a number of carts in our area and that seems to be the way the local dealer installs them. I'm planning to get a 48v -> 12v reducer soon and wire everything up properly through a fuse box.