Turn signal wires front and rear.

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03-12-2021 | 06:23 AM

Bill Levens

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The signal lamps will not blink unless there are two bulbs drawing current.

The flasher gets power from the accessory circuit (Orange wire).

A Green/Black wire runs from the flasher to the connector for the right turn signal switch, where it branches over to the connector for the left switch. The wires between the connectors and the turn signal switches are solid Green.

Any idea how big the bulbs would need to be? The ones in the blinkers he gave me are about the same size as the dash
bulbs.
I'm back to work today through Monday so I won't be able to look at it anymore until late Monday at least. I can wire up 2 1156 bulbs just to test it though.

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03-12-2021 | 06:52 AM

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Stock is an 1157 and 1156, so two 1156's in parallel would be fine for testing.

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03-12-2021 | 07:11 AM

Bill Levens

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Perfect, thanks.

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Stock is an 1157 and 1156, so two 1156's in parallel would be fine for testing.

Thank you Dr.Hess
If this works and I still want to go with led lights, does this system work with resistors? One for each side wired to the brown and purple wires?
Everything I see for the resistors says to stop the hyper flash. I'm guessing that's with the electronic modules.

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03-12-2021 | 08:00 AM

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Just get the module from the auto parts store like I said. It's cheap, cheaper than resistors.

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03-12-2021 | 08:36 AM

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Just get the module from the auto parts store like I said. It's cheap, cheaper than resistors.

is this the correct module?

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03-12-2021 | 08:49 AM

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How many wires/connectors does it have? If it has 2, then it will work. 3, no.

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03-12-2021 | 08:50 AM

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I used 2ea Tridon EP36 flashers that I bought from Advance Auto Parts 8 years ago. FLHT's take 2, one for the flasher and one for the emergency flasher. Dunno if softails have an emergency flasher function.

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03-12-2021 | 09:06 AM

Bill Levens

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So any two prong led flasher plugged in where the old one was?
Almost seems too easy lol.
And I'm only seeing one flasher so I'm guessing no hazard function. At least in old cars it was 2 separate flashers.

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03-12-2021 | 09:25 AM

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The flasher on the 89 has two wires, no emergency flasher function on that bike.

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03-12-2021 | 10:25 AM

Bill Levens

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I plugged the new flasher in to test.

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The flasher on the 89 has two wires, no emergency flasher function on that bike.

The lights now flash but only if I'm keeping the buttons depressed.
Are they supposed to continue to blink or is it set up that way so I don't forget to turn them off?
Thanks so much everyone for your time so far walking me through this.

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