Subject: Strange Blinker Bulb Problem
Author: Keith Ruff
Date: May 6, 2001, 4:43 PM
Post ID: 1706617019
OK, ready for this one??
The right and left rear blinkers were working intermittently. Found
that the rear connectors were pretty crapped up, so I cut them off,
stripped the wires, and intalled new connectors. All is well with the
right side, but here is the strange thing with the left. There's 2
wires to each rear blinker. Using a meter, it was determined, as I
thought, that 1 wire was for the blinker, the other is for the rear
flashers (police model). The blinker would work very slow, sometimes
locking up, and when the bike was running, it would either go normal, or
as I revved the engine, would flat out stop working. The flashers,
however worked just fine. What I did next confused the heck out of me
and I am still stumped. The bulbs in the blinkers are dual filament,
one higher than the other (don't know the bulb #). I watched the right
rear bulb to see which filament was used for the blinker versus the
flasher (think the blinker used the low filament, flasher used the
taller filament). I then checked the left side and noticed it was
opposite, so I removed the bulb, and reversed it so the filaments used
for the blinker/flasher would be the same as the right side. After
doing this, the blinker now worked perfect, but the flasher would just
blip real quick. Why would a bulb have this effect on the
blinker/flasher not working correctly? Am I using an incorrect bulb? I
even swapped the right side bulb with the left and had the same problem,
and the suspect bulb from the left side worked fine on the right side.
What the heck is going on where a bulb can cause this problem?
HELP!!
Keith Ruff
71 Police Amabassador - NJ