Canceling TS

[Grimly]

More than embarassing, it's DANGEROUS! Drivers make assumptions-among many examples you can probably imagine: the car waiting for you at the yellow traffic light sees your left blinker on and turns in front of you....

(surviving)Bikers are used to treating other vehicles' signals with some caution but cars?-maybe not so much.

It doesn't even have to be a blinker.
When I first fitted a Windjammer fairing it was wired with constant-on orange marker lights, by design.
Shortly into the first trip, a driver nearly pulled out in front of me, as they thought the orange light they could see was my left blinker. Orange lights as marker lights just aren't a thing here, so I promptly unwired those.

[Gorminrider]

that also brings up an interesting sidebar, Grimly-visibility of signals from the side...some of the add ons i see advertised would only be seen from straight ahead let alone from a bit of an angle ,blocked by something.... I had similar on my vetters...now you mention it,the angle of them could make one of them invisible...,. I even think additional orange "marker"/"run" lights are technically illegal for motorcycles here.

The system they used (and the80s Honda Goldwing/Silverwings used the same, I think)seemed like a good idea but later I changed em to divert the runlight circuit to some white "run-lights"much lower down...

I can't remember the Vetter's circuits offhand-as i recall they were in the headlamp circuit?- but if I still had a vetter I might try diverting each dormant windjammer bulb element into their turn signals, to add a little brightness (6watts) to the turn-signals.

[Gorminrider]

It's trivial to add a timer into circuit.

I've toyed with the idea too...I'd go with similar to the third ( the darlington setup) from the link below. It usually takes a bit of tinkering with the capacitor size. I don't think you'd need to bother regulating the circuit's voltage, (per a bit of variation between 12 and 14.5) but you'd need to know it might be a factor when you're trying to tweak the time period.


https://www.circuits-diy.com/top-3-s...imer-circuits/

[Who Dat?]

Strange, ain't it, I've always wondered why early "80's" had them, and working well, then dropped them.

The first bike I remember with them was the '76 Yamaha XS750. Almost 50 years later, I still have not seen a similar system on a car. Yeah, the car signals turn off after making a turn, but you can signal a lane change in New York, it will still be blinking in Florida, if you haven't run out of blinker fluid.