LED Turn signals blinking together

[fluke12]

72 cl350 with led front and rear turn signals. I unplugged everything to rewire a brake switch, when I plugged it all back together, the LEDs blink together. Before that, they worked fine. I've unplugged and replugged everything 3 times now. I feel like I'm going crazy. I have an led relay on there.

Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks for the help!

 

[studiorat]

Does your bike have one turn signal indicator on the bar clamp? If its anything like the 550, depending on which way you flip your turn signal control, the ground of that indicator bulb changes between the blue wire feeding it and the orange wire feeding it, which are on the same power as your signals. I'd get into the whole explanation why that happens with led's and not the bulbs but I'm on my phone and don't wanna go deep. Try unplugging the feed to that indicator bulb and see if that fixes the problem!

 

[Sonreir]

Or if you want to continue to run with the indicator light, you can wire up two diodes (one for the orange wire and one for the blue) and then splice the two wires together before they connect to the indicator light. Then run a ground wire from the other indicator light wire and you're good to go.

Look here for the full details:
http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=44556.msg486851#msg486851

 

[studiorat]

Or if you want to continue to run with the indicator light, you can wire up two diodes (one for the orange wire and one for the blue) and then splice the two wires together before they connect to the indicator light. Then run a ground wire from the other indicator light wire and you're good to go.

Look here for the full details:
http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=44556.msg486851#msg486851

That's a great tip with the diodes! I ended up just taking the power for the indicator light off the switched power from the blinker can

 

[fluke12]

Both of you nailed it. I'm going to reread the detailed explanation and wire in some diodes so that I can have an indicator light. Thanks for the help!!