Led Blinkers

[treyflee]

I will start by saying, I have no working knowledge of this except how to flip the blinker switch on.

So I violently removed a blinker from my wife's dual sport. I bought some cheap little flush mount led blinkers to replace the ones that stick way out.

I wired them up and they stay on (do not flash) when I flip blinker switch. I know I need some kind of resistor in line to make it work properly. This is just a straight blinker, no running light, 12v system. I don't really care about the speed with which it blinks either.

My question is what size resistor should work? Being completely stupid, I really need a simple answer. I read most of the posts regarding LED light on here and think I'm more confused now.

Something like 10 watt /10 ohm is something I can comprehend and go to radio shack and get.

Thanks for the help......sorry so stupid.

 

[xtremelow]

Simplest route.

ASB Flasher Relay

There are cross reference numbers but i am not 100% on what they are.

 

[treyflee]

I'm sorry didn't say. This is not a Buell. This is her Suzuki DR200.

I have just the two wires going to the blinker housing (or whats left of it.)

 

[Baal]

You seem to have something either mis-wired, or a damaged switch. The symptom that the different relay/blinker handles is rapid flashing, not "always on." You may still need the replacement blinker, but you need to check the rest of it first. HTH.

 

[xtremelow]

LED signals will not draw enough power and the flasher will cause the light to stay on continuously. All you need is a flasher relay.

A while back I was running just a rear brake/led with signals and just the single turn signal led up front and it wouldn't draw enough power I couldn't get them to work they would just buzz and stay on with the OEM flasher. I hooked up my LED flasher and Bamm all worked fine.

 

[shining]

Just installed my new led signals. They stayed on and buzzed. Went to Advance Auto and bought EP-36 electronic flasher. Unplug the original and plug new one in. All set now![up]

 

[Jobe Zeebuh]

You can use a relay or another simple route is installing a dual load equalizer. Its easy and will work with almost any bike. This is the one I have. Works great.

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...ualizer&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHNV_enUS408US408&prmd=i

 

[xtremelow]

Good deal [up]

 

[BuellerPilot]

Get the flasher. The "Load Equalizers" and "Load Resistors" simply add a load to make the flasher work correctly. This load is energy transformed into heat. One of the benefits of LED's is they use less power, by band-aiding it and using resistors your back to drawing close to the same power as the stock incandescent lights did. It's just too simple to plug in a new relay, why add wireing complications and a less efficient system?

~Mike....

 

[Jobe Zeebuh]

your back to drawing close to the same power as the stock incandescent lights did

good point. I did not know that.

 

[upthemaiden]

I bought one on ebay for $1, havent gotten it yet so im not sure how well it works yet