I was a thinking the same thing, did the diode mod last night. Gonna study this for a bit but noticed one row of led's has a 2 stage brightness. Gonna try and find lead from ballast to light to trace and see if I can get both upper and lower to fire the same on my GMC.
For what it's worth I unplugged and stripped back alittle of the black wire wrap for easier access to get at the wires.