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Originally Posted by NewOldSkool
I am trying to install the front bullet turn signals. I must be doing something wrong because if I connect all the wires it does not work(all four flash). The weird thing is, if I leave one wire disconnected it works. But then when I use the left blinker, the right comes on very dim though. The right side works without the left coming on. At first I was thinking that I mixed up the wires, so I rewired it from the beginning yesterday with the same results. Then I checked my grounds and all seemed good. Any help would be GREAT! Thanks
Mondo
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Hello Mondo. When you say "the front bullet turn signals", are these incandescent bulbs (like the OEM uses)? If not, and if they're LED lighting, then what you're into is a problem that plagues other mfg bikes as well in that they use a single incandescent bulb as the signal indicator (on the instrument cluster) which is wired BETWEEN both left and right signal circuits and presumes that the original signal bulb has relatively low resistance in comparison.......the unused side of the signal circuit (with 2 of the heavier current/low resistance bulbs in parallel) form the ground side of that small indicator bulb which then flashes in unison with the selected side signals.
When LED lights (if this isn't your case then disregard!) are installed without addressing this indicator arrangement, the LED's drawing much less current than the indicator bulb (instead of much more) all light up at seemingly the same brilliance.
There are work arounds for this situation that range from the ridiculous (adding a resistor across the LED to force each side to approximate the current needed of the old incandescent bulb) to installing seperate indicators for each side of the circuit (effective and they can be LED also).
Hope this doesn't confuse - at the least.
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