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I'm wiring in a dual sport set up (home made harness) and am having a problem with the flashers. I'm running LEDs for tail/brake and turn signals and the regular dual element bulb in 35/35. I can not get the turn signals to flash at all....driving me nuts...what am I doing wrong?
If anyone has done this before...what flasher did you use?
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The LED lights in the signals aren't pulling enough juice for the flasher to operate. You will need to add resistors. Do a search online and there will be lots of info.
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the problems ive found (before I said screw it) is that your bike is a AC system while most flashers are meant to run on a DC system
so your options are converting the bike to DC (which cuts power output in half) or finding a diode/resistor set up that will allow your LEDs to flash
(not saying Goofy doesn't have a point with the draw but ive found that even flashers intended for LEDs don't work on our bike, simplest way to check that theory is swapping in some incandescent bulbs)
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Post by terminatr »

The horn also doesn't like A/C electricity.

What I did was built a 12V battery out of 10 AA batteries. I charge the batteries at home.

Batteries are D/C. So hook your horn and your flasher to a 12V battery. Hook other lights to the stator.

Not ideal. But good enough to pass State Inspection.
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Rectifier/regulator - http://www.bajadesigns.com/ProductDetai ... ber=122003
LED flasher - http://www.bajadesigns.com/ProductDetai ... ber=603008
You'll still need to build the battery - you can get the parts for a Li-ion for less than $20 on e-bay.Although after building it I've heard that NiCad might've been the better choice. I built mine this spring & keep it on a battery tender - so far, so good.
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