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Time to ask the the collective think tank.
On my Intruder the previous owner had removed the turn signals, and instead installed 2 LED brake lights. To keep it legal added a hoppy brake converter to combine the brake, and turn fumnctions. I have done this on previous bikes, and it's pretty common practice in the motorcycle world.
At idle, with my passing lights on my standing voltage is somewhere around 13.2 volts. The turn signals won't work right. Sometimes the led's flicker, or when I turn one on they both blink, or if I engage the brake they both stay solid.
If I turn off the passing lights, the voltage in the system jumps to 14+ volts and everything works fine.
I had thought it was a bad converter, so I switched it out with a Hoppy #48895 which is rated for LED's. STill the same issue.
I had thought of maybe trying to add a resistor after the converter, but not sure what that would accomplish. The thought this morning also accoured to me to throw a scope on it later, to see if maybe because it's stator fed, I may have a bad rectifier and it's leaking AC causing havoc. Is that a possibility?
Here's a quick video showing what I'm experiencing:
Suzuki intruder Turn sig problem - YouTube
Thanks for the help and ideas,
Bill
On my Intruder the previous owner had removed the turn signals, and instead installed 2 LED brake lights. To keep it legal added a hoppy brake converter to combine the brake, and turn fumnctions. I have done this on previous bikes, and it's pretty common practice in the motorcycle world.
At idle, with my passing lights on my standing voltage is somewhere around 13.2 volts. The turn signals won't work right. Sometimes the led's flicker, or when I turn one on they both blink, or if I engage the brake they both stay solid.
If I turn off the passing lights, the voltage in the system jumps to 14+ volts and everything works fine.
I had thought it was a bad converter, so I switched it out with a Hoppy #48895 which is rated for LED's. STill the same issue.
I had thought of maybe trying to add a resistor after the converter, but not sure what that would accomplish. The thought this morning also accoured to me to throw a scope on it later, to see if maybe because it's stator fed, I may have a bad rectifier and it's leaking AC causing havoc. Is that a possibility?
Here's a quick video showing what I'm experiencing:
Suzuki intruder Turn sig problem - YouTube
Thanks for the help and ideas,
Bill
