LED indicators problems

[Nearbymitch]

Hi all, i have recently purchased some brand new led indicators. I have a rather large issue with them, when i signal to the left, none of them go. But when i signal to the right they all light up and flash at regular timing. Installed on a suzuki gs450s 1980. Cheers in advance, mitch.

[bogan]

Hi all, i have recently purchased some brand new led indicators. I have a rather large issue with them, when i signal to the left, none of them go. But when i signal to the right they all light up and flash at regular timing. Installed on a suzuki gs450s 1980. Cheers in advance, mitch.

You need an LED flasher set for the lower current draw of the LEDs.

[Drew]

You need an LED flasher set for the lower current draw of the LEDs.

That doesn't solve the issue of them all being hooked up to the one side circuit though.

[Tazz]

Have you wired the old ones back in to see if it is just the new ones and not your wiring effort or bad timing for your switch to play up? Also have you just pulled the old ones and put the LEDs straight onto the existing wires?
Do they come on with the brake light, headlights or anything else weird?

You need an LED flasher set for the lower current draw of the LEDs.

I thought they should only blink faster without that?

[Gremlin]

...when i signal to the left, none of them go... signal to the right they all light up and flash at regular timing.

You need an LED flasher set for the lower current draw of the LEDs.

bogan needs reading comprehension

You need to check your wiring Mitch, it would appear you've botched the wiring, possibly hooked both sets to one side. As Tazz says, how did you replace etc.

[bogan]

That doesn't solve the issue of them all being hooked up to the one side circuit though.

Might be some ass backwards wiring where one side is active high and one active low was my thinking... But it was only a cursory glance, so I might need to update my recomendations to fix wiring, and get a proper flasher. How do you fuck up swaping indicators out though? only two wires at each...

[Akzle]

How do you fuck up swaping indicators out though? only two wires at each...

a'cause they ground out through the opposite side. And youre a nooby noob. Would be my guess

[ducatilover]

Shit flasher units and connections will do that, happens on my Kawashitface when it blows the $1 Chinese flasher units.
Look closely and you may see a set of three LEDs per indicator are dimly lit.

[bogan]

Shit flasher units and connections will do that, happens on my Kawashitface when it blows the $1 Chinese flasher units.
Look closely and you may see a set of three LEDs per indicator are dimly lit.

Mine sometimes come back to life after a while, weird fucking things, makes me wonder if they are expecting a different load. Proper LED flashers should just go on a timer, but you get what you pay for, unless you pay 40 bucks for a 2$ Chinese flasher on TM...

[F5 Dave]

Or if you live in a planned grid city you could just turn right 3 times for the same effect.

[Hobbyhorse]

I went to a LED guy on Shore who fitted up LED bulbs and LED flasher in my R80RT BMW. When signalling left, both left and one right would flash and when signalling right, both right and one left flashed. He had no idea what to do, so I reinstalled original flasher and bulbs and all worked just fine.

[Latte]

Had a similar problem on my Aprilia - had to put a couple of diodes on the dash indicator (as it had a single bulb on the dash for l & r, instead of a separate one for each). What was happening was the difference in current/resistance/flux capacitance with the led flashers was over powering the dash indicator and allowing current/resistance/flux capacitance to operate both L&R.

[Drew]

Had a similar problem on my Aprilia - had to put a couple of diodes on the dash indicator (as it had a single bulb on the dash for l & r, instead of a separate one for each). What was happening was the difference in current/resistance/flux capacitance with the led flashers was over powering the dash indicator and allowing current/resistance/flux capacitance to operate both L&R.

Except the flux capacitor operates on the high/low beam switch you friggin idiot!

[imdying]

Had a similar problem on my Aprilia - had to put a couple of diodes on the dash indicator (as it had a single bulb on the dash for l & r, instead of a separate one for each). What was happening was the difference in current/resistance/flux capacitance with the led flashers was over powering the dash indicator and allowing current/resistance/flux capacitance to operate both L&R.

Normally the dash light grounds through the inoperative indicators on the other side, something it can do because it is has very low current draw, and the current it drags back through that light is much less than required to light up the indicators on that side. However, the current draw requirements of the new LED indicators is much less, so they light up because they can get sufficient current via the dash light circuit. As you say, a couple of cheap zener diodes to block that (a diode is effectively a one way valve in a DC circuit) and you're away laughing.

That all probably makes no sense, but a diagram would help, if someone has one.

[Latte]

Except the flux capacitor operates on the high/low beam switch you friggin idiot!

Does that explain the lack of adhesion between the front wheel and the ground?