Recently, I purchased a license plate frame with turn signals.  This item had only one wire per side, so I grounded the 2 grounds from the stock rear turn signals, wired the positive for each turn signal to the existing wiring.  The good news, they work, the bad news, the "blinking" is so anemic, you can't see it flash if your more than 2' away.  At any rate, I "think" I read someplace on the forum about load equalizers that would possibly solve this issue.  The problem, I'm clueless as to what these are, what size to get and where to get them.  Other than that, I'm relegated to hand signals only.

Youve got a lousy connection somewhere, its low light & low flash rate is due to Lower than Normal Current flow. Check the grounds.

Dont put the seat on till youve proven your wiring works,,

Do you have an ohm meter? If not, you need one & a test lite, I built mine, a socket for an 1156, coupla wires, a piece of piano wire sharpened to a needle point, a piece of dowel rod & some solder & black tape.,,.
Only 20 minutes to build the replacement for my $2.00 junker.. I needed one & didnt want to go to town,,

A ground needs to be clean metal that is grounded, maybe you should run a wire from somewhere you KNOW is grounded,
This stuff would be so much easier if I could see what youre doing,


Ohh,, & you can just run a wire, get a ground, anywhere, just run a wire & use it to prove the blinkers work IF you give them a good ground, If you run a wire from a known good ground & that doesnt solve it, then run a hot wire & prove they will at least get bright if you give them a straight 12 volts & a good ground,

The sockets & lamps, have you looked at them? Looked inside? Looked at the lamp connectors? All clean & tidy?

The only thing I did afterward was to give the beast a bath.


theres a detail ya left out,,

Relax & see if its okay tomorrow.

Dj12midnit wrote on 05/16/12 at 23:13:20:

In the past, washing my ride seemed like the only thing I could do correctly.  Apparently, I may have been too aggressive with the hose and watered down my latest electrical project.  Part of my reasoning behind the wash job was to try and dislodge the seat bolt I managed to drop.  It's no where to be found, sweep the garage floor, moved the bike and picked up my tools, the bold is still MIA.

thumperclone wrote on 05/17/12 at 00:36:51:

THANKS!  Yes, I still have the original stock front turn signals, so maybe there's still hope to salvage this 9 hour project.  The only real positive is I'm retired and can devote how many hrs. it takes to eventually get this right.  Thankfully, no one has to pay me by the hr to do the work.

dasch wrote on 05/17/12 at 12:19:19:


EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!  I would have NEVER considered this as an option.  Man, you guys are the best!  Thanks for all your assistance with this "issue" I managed to create for myself.