Hi everyone, i wondering why i cant replace the stock turn signal flasher in my f4i with a regular car flasher, this flasher is from Tridon and its Heavy duty style. Ive tride to wire it instead of the stock one but it dont works, WHY??

Thanks in advance...

 

what happens when you wire it in?

 

They car relay may be triggered differently (negative switched instead of positive switched for example). Hard to say for sure unless you knew specifics about it.

It's really easy to find a flasher relay for the F4i if you need to.

 

Well, if you remove the stock flasher the turn signal is dead, and if you wire it in and you turn on your turn signal it stays on but theres no blinking i dont know why...

I know Aken but im in Mexico and its a little hard to find it plus i have a leds turn signal and i dont want the fast blinking. In a few days ill post a how-to about the leds i put it, im sure you'll understand once you see the post...

 

It means there is not enouph load on them add a resister to them to increase the load.

 

You need a variable load flasher relay, or a solid state relay that doesnt change its cycle rate under different loads

 

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This a variable load flasher, if a have to add some resistors which values should i must use??

 

I dont know what led's you used but when I was doing custom signals in passenger pegs I used 1/4 watt 510 ohm resistors. 1 per led and stock flasher and had normal flash speed. You could probably wire the leds in series and then get one resistor doing the math for how many leds you used per side.

 

Use 10W 50-ish ohm power resistors. jon - im suprised you didnt instantly burn out those 1/4 watters, but it sounds like you did something along the lines of your own signals.

For wiring LED's signals that you bought in, they already have the array resistors in there(what john mentioned) What you basically need is a large power, low resistance resistor to make your flasher "think" there is a load there. So around 40-50 ohms should be good, 10W to be safe, might be able to pull off 5W.

Yes bery mathematical i know :-D

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