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    Turn signal help

    I tried a search but no luck...I change all my exterior bulb light to LEDs.
    Switchbacks in the front& installed two EL 12 After the install I checked & all lights & signals working great. A couple of days later My signals dont work anymore. The green arrow lights up but does not flash..( Like a bulb would be out ). I checked and all lights are working . The signals will not flash. Anyone have any ideas?

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    Mine don't even flash, I flip the turn indicator, nothing. hazards work though? Sorry to jack your thread, I'm interested is hearing about this too.

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    The LED bulbs do not use enough electricity to make the flasher work. As far as the flasher is concerned, you have a burned out bulb. You need a flasher designed for the LED bulbs. Go here: http://stores.ebay.com/TMI-LED-TECHNOLOGY
    Then scroll down to "LED bulb turn signal flasher hazard relay load resistor".

    The flasher will work.
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    I got my flasher to work.. I had to remove the LED bulbs I had in the tail lights and put back in my original bulbs. All my other LEDs work fine. WHen I replace 1 bulb in the tail light with a LED , my signal will not work ...

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    I using the EL 12 triden Flashers

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    As I stated. You will have to have a flasher designed to flash LED bulbs. A regular flasher will not work with LED bulbs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SScott View Post
    Mine don't even flash, I flip the turn indicator, nothing. hazards work though? Sorry to jack your thread, I'm interested is hearing about this too.
    you need a new flasher. 8 bucks at autozone and you will be fine

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    I also recently ran into this problem when replacing a blown DRL lamp - decided I should swap my bright yellow LED bulbs in. I tried buying the EL12 - doesn't work. Factory flasher - doesn't work.

    I then bought an "LED Flasher" module - which also resulted in the same solid non-flashing setup. I have not yet gotten the model that JEB suggested above, but looking at it in the listing, I'm feeling a lot more confident about that unit getting the job done. I'll be ordering it up this weekend (because I also do not wish to use load resistors on each bulb), and hopefully that will take care of the problem.

    If it doesn't, I may have to wire up my own unit to fill the role, with a secondary power ciruit and a relay that just triggers regularly. I dont look forward to that idea, but its better than load resistors.

    Makes me wonder, though - why do all these sites list using a load on each bulb? Why not apply the load directly between the flasher and the rest of the circuit?
    --edited--

    Okay, I'd like to apologize to the folks giving good advice. It turns out that I am in fact a bit retarded when it comes to my own car. I've been fighting with it for so long, I didn't realize until today that I'd been muckin' about with the hazard flasher unit. This means I've wasted a good 20-30 bucks on flashers I didnt need to "fix" my problem, the original EL12 that I bought works just fine - now that it's in the proper #@! socket. On the RIGHT SIDE under the dash instead of the left.

    I hope I never have to deal with that again.
    Last edited by Ilhares; 08-26-2007 at 11:00 AM.

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