LED Flasher / Blinker "Issue"

PancakeShake

PancakeShake

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Alright.

So I bought a billion LED lights and made my own tail light and blinkers. Looks great so far and the brake lights work awesome.

However, I ran into an issue with the blinkers.

I bought some resistors so the LED's dont fry with the 12v from the battery and put a resistor before each LED's circuit. When touched off to the 12v the lights light up nice and bright, dont fry, look great.

NOW.

I bought an electric flasher and installed that. But when I turn on the blinkers, the light come on and stay on.

Took me a while to figure it out, but, this is ok though because it should happen, because the resistors block the amount of current flow through the circuit and this doesn't allow enough voltage to trip the flasher.

SOOO in order to consume the full 12v I wired an original bulb in parallel with the LED circuit to activate the halogen bulb and use the voltage from that positive wire to also flash the LED's.

This works great, however, I have to have an original bulb wired into the system somewhere so I have some bright random light flashing behind the headlight and I dont want it.


SOOOO, I need something to draw the full 12v that I can put in parallel with the LED circuits.

SOOOO, do I need..

A) Capacitor? To consume the voltage?
B) Load Equalizer?
C) Something else?

Made it this far using the forum so im sure you guys can help me out with this last little piece!

Thanks.
 
Actually, now that I think of it, I need a different resistor, right?

Cause a light bulb is a resistor...So should I just get a resistor that is the same resistance as the lightbulb I was using and wire that in, in place of the bulb?

Soooo close!
 
In the eyes of the circuit, the original lamp is just another resistance. So if you measure the resistance of the original lamp, and then replace it with a resistor with a somewhat equivalent resistance (in parallel like you have it now)...I'd imagine it would solve your problem.

This is just an educated guess though. Resistors are cheap too.
 
So the bulbs are 12v, 10W.

W=V^2/R

So R=14.4 Ohms.

So I need a 14.4 Ohm resistor?

I cant seem so find ANY online but I found a bunch of 10W resistors, does anyone know a little more about it than me?
 
You need to buy an electronic flasher made for LEDs. They require no load. It looks like you bought the wrong one. Forget about the resistors.
 
I am also having the same problem with my LED signals. I bought an electronic flasher and they stay when I use the switch but they do not blink. The one I bought was from superbrightled.com
 
I had similar issues until I installed a Tridon EP34 unit. $5 or so from Autozone, fixed my LED blinker issue immediately.
 
Booligan said:
I had similar issues until I installed a Tridon EP34 unit. $5 or so from Autozone, fixed my LED blinker issue immediately.
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Can this be used on any bike? I am going to use LED flashers and tail light on my Suzuki GT500, maybe I can try it.
 
johnu said:
Can this be used on any bike? I am going to use LED flashers and tail light on my Suzuki GT500, maybe I can try it.
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If your bike uses individual terminals for the flasher relay, odds are it'll work just fine with no mods. The individual terminals make wiring a snap. You MAY need to run a ground wire from the relay to the frame, as I did with mine on my CB, but it was a 30 second job. Pretty damn close to plug-n-play.

To the OP, glad it worked out for you. I saw a few reviews of "electronic" flashers that people have complained about not working with full LED systems. I think everyone needs to throw a Tridon in there, lol. It'd solve 99.9% of the blinker issues that I've seen.
 
One other thing to check on electronic flashers is the polarity. When I hooked my $6 dollar flasher up, the lights just lit up solid. After I swapped the two leads, it worked fine.
 
Hey, guys i just bought some signals from ebay and the only thing it tell me is that they are 12v which, I already know. I have some 10w 3 ohm resistors and im just curious if anyone knows if they will work ( one resistor for each signal) or if i need to get larger resistors and save myself some time while i wait for parts.

im working with a 78 kz 400 and dont think the triton flasher option will work on such a "seasoned" bike

thanks for any info and sorry to bombard the thread
 
codyharteben said:
im working with a 78 kz 400 and dont think the triton flasher option will work on such a "seasoned" bike
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I threw the Tridon on my 79 750L. It's a basically drop in replacement for almost any flasher, age doesn't make a huge difference...
 
It doesn't really get "wired in." It just replaces your stock flasher module. Only wiring I needed to do was run a jumper wire for the ground output on the new flasher.
 
Awesome I guess i need to find this module and swap it out asap. Im assumeing just follow the wire and find it along the way? tucked into the headlight dish i suppose...

thanks for the help
 
Find a wiring schematic for your bike, it'll make life much easier. Flasher relay is frequently found under the seat near the battery.
 
o i bought a tridon ep 34 but it has 3 connections a lamp, neg and pos and the old one only has to connections a dark red and an orange? anyone know what to do with the extra terminal or is that just for the universality for LED and filament bulbs...

Im not to the stage of wiring in the new signals yet, but im trying to figure it out ahead of time, otherwise I would be playing around with it figuring it out poking wires around

thanks for the help so far!
 
As I mentioned before, you need to run an additional ground wire from the "E" marked terminal to your frame.
 
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