Hyper Flashing/Blinking

[FIDOSOL]

I was just wondering what the negative side of Hyper Flashing/Blinking is. The increased flash rate won't bother me as it just adds to the visibility of my bike when I want to make a turn. But will it cause any electrical issues or anything like that if I don't correct it? Just trying to get my ducks in a row before I buy new turn signals.

 

[Tork]

Fido,

Sounds like you still have the stock thermal flasher with LED blinkers (resulting in the hyper flashing). Correct? Since the thermal flasher is a electro-mechanical device, it might wear out faster because of the increased duty time, but otherwise it shouldn't cause any other problems.

 

[FIDOSOL]

Actually I just have the stock turn signals, just doing my research before I get my new signals is all. If it does wear it out then I'll go from there I guess. Thanks.

 

[Tork]

Since you're in the research phase of upgrading...

You can avoid the hyper flashing altogether by upgrading your stock flasher with the Grote 44893 relay at American Sportbike (Link: http://www.americansportbike.com/shoponline/ccp0-prodshow/16086.html.)

I believe an EP-36 relay from Autozone, O'Reilly, NAPA, etc. will also work.

 

[FIDOSOL]

I will do that if hyper flashing turns out to have any long term negative effects. If not then I won't, I would prefer the faster flash rate as it would attract attention to my while I'm riding/turning and hopefully keep the cagers from not seeing me. Thank you for the information though, I will definately keep it in mind.

 

[ophawk]

Fido,
I have had leds on mine for over two years without negative affects as far as I can tell. I left thw stock flasher for the same reason, hyper flashing - more attention for the cager's
Later

 

[FIDOSOL]

Thanks ophawk.

 

[hoss]

Hey fidosol, just put an around 20 ohms resistance in parallel (between your two flashers wire). Try to put one with the more watt you can get ( around 50w is good ) cause it will heat up fast. Will work as new after!!!!

 

[TechMagic]

Just adding to this, I put a 20w 8 ohm non-inductive resistor in parallel with each of my rear blinkers (in an LED all-around situation) and the system works like a charm now. The highest wattage I could find was 20 so that's what I went with.

 

[RyBuell]

I know this post is old: but i wanted to add my two cents. I've been rolled twice now, once in CA and the other in NV, both times for what I was told was "illegal flash rates"...Same thing has happened to me in cars too. I slapped a resistor on as Tech says and I've been good to go with no 5.0 problems since.