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Originally Posted by Chad300tdt
What I don't understand is, reports of the afterglow relay and violet mod giving up to 2-3 minutes of glow.
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You won't get anywhere near 2-3 minutes with an original equipment relay. All you will get is whatever is remaining of the original glow cycle, which is around 40 seconds, depending on temperature.
The aftermarket Bosch relay will give a 3 minute afterglow, however.
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Originally Posted by Chad300tdt
If the relay timer isn't disabled and you're only allowing the normal cycle length to continue after a start, how is the reported extended glowing possible? ... or was it misinformation?
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As designed, the glow cycle is terminated (regardless of time elapsed) when the key is released from the start position. Disconnecting the violet wire prevents the timer from ending the cycle prematurely, since it doesn't "know" that a start was attempted. So the cycle will run for its "normal" duration until it times out. So, the most that you could nominally expect is an additional 30 seconds, plus or minus.