Guss80special
XS650 Addict
Hello. I’m hoping there’s someone out there that might help me with an electrical issue.
I bought some smaller black signal lights on Amazon the other day from vipcycle. They look great and I want to use them but they don’t flash
They only blink if I touch the power wire to the bike power wire while my existing lights are still connected. If I disconnect my existing signal light from power and only have the new signal connected, the new signal does not flash - it lights up, but does not flash. I can get them to flash only by connections all four orange power wires (2units) to one side of my bike power. Ugg. Not ideal.
Do you think this is something to do with resistance, or perhaps the signal relay on my bike requires a certain amount of draw to trigger the flasher? Do I need a different relay?
These new lights have 3 wires. Ground and 2 orange power lines. The bulb is dual filament and so they are supposed to work as both running lights and flashers, but I don’t really want running lights.
Instructions say:
“Hook one orange to headlight power and the other orange to signal power. Or, hook one orange to headlight switch, and the other orange to signal switch. Hook blue ground to any ground on the bike frame. “
I searched the forum but didn’t find a solution. Found some stuff about diodes,?? And people turning there signals into running lights. but I don’t think that’s my problem.
Any suggestions? Return them? Keep stock lights? Lol
Guss
1980 Special.