2 Flashers Needed ?
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2 Flashers Needed ?
06 Jan 2017 03:55
My 77' KZ1000A has 2 flasher relays. I like to change out my "stock" turn signals to smaller LED's ones. Will I have to purchase 2 Electronic flasher units to replace the stock ones ? I'm assuming 2 flashers are needed for the signals to work.
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Re: 2 Flashers Needed ?
06 Jan 2017 14:58
One is a hazard switch the other is your blinker.
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Re: 2 Flashers Needed ?
06 Jan 2017 16:07
Do you know which one is which ? So probably only need one ?
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Re: 2 Flashers Needed ?
07 Jan 2017 04:06
For the hazards to work you'll probably need to replace that one as well.
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Re: 2 Flashers Needed ?
07 Jan 2017 14:48
Martin, I don't have the flashers hooked up at all with my 3-wire turn signals in front. And looking at the wiring diagram which seems to go thru both hazard relay and signal relay, I'm wondering if I can get by with only 1 electronic relay to work with these LED turn signals I'm going to install ?
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Re: 2 Flashers Needed ?
07 Jan 2017 21:08
I just switched to LEDs. I needed to switch the turn signal flasher to electronic one. The hazard flasher worked fine. I guess since there are twice as many lights it pulls enough load to work.
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Re: 2 Flashers Needed ?
13 Jan 2017 19:18
Didn't have to use another flasher unit than the stock ones that are on the bike. These are the turn signals that I used except amber lenses in front. They are a 3-wire signal, used only the Red lead for power and the Black lead for ground. On thing I did notice is that the Left front signal isn't as bright as the right when flashing ? Any ideas ?
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Re: 2 Flashers Needed ?
14 Jan 2017 05:14
I have no clue what you need to do but I do know that the hazard flasher and the turn signal flasher or different parts. On my 750 I got them switch between them and the signals didn't work correctly until switching the flashers around..
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Re: 2 Flashers Needed ?
14 Jan 2017 17:35
Nessiam, The signals work fine. All I did was replace the original signals with these new signals and used the same connections in the wiring harness. I didn't run the extra 3rd wire ( black/white ) of the new signals to the flasher light connectors of the harness inside the headlight bucket. Just notice that the left front signal didn't seem as bright as the other side ? So I'm assuming that maybe the ground which is the 2-wire connector is "weak" but if that was the case, sharing the same ground connector as the right side, wouldn't that side be dimmer as well ?
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