My 450E's turn signals don't work

[Anonymous]

Yeah, they don't, and I need to fix them a-sap ... I bought it off my buddy who moved to a larger bike, and that was right after he laid it down. He said that it stopped working after the accident. There's an L-shaped plug along with a wire on a solderless terminal that's just hanging off of the right side of the bike where the fairing used to be, and I'm thinking that's it. Something doesn't work + something's unplugged = plug it back in right? Well, I don't know where it goes ... I've looked around and I can't find anything that it could plug into ... perhaps I'm looking for the wrong thing?

Everything else works including the brake light; this is the only thing that doesn't work on this bike. Any ideas?

[spots25]

i think some pictures are in order

[bradleymaynar]

Check the bulbs. They may have been damaged in the wreck. Although it doesn't seem likely that you'd lose all 4. If you can get your hands on a repair manual, do so, it could answer a lot of ?'s.

Brad tt

[Anonymous]

So I metered the plug and jumped some of the connections ... foud out that if I short the two connectors on the L plug, it allows the signals to turn on and off, left and right respectively, only without flashing. So I figured that there needs to be a relay circuit on there. It'll be easy to build, I just need to get to work (I work at an electronics shop and don't work Sun), and I just got a flat back tire today Poop. Buses suck ...


But yeah I pretty much got it figured out, thanks everyone!

[gspaul]

Any cheap auto relay will work with the same number of conection's,but you probably know that,because you work in an electronic's shop, and I have now just wasted my one finger typing on you have'nt I. AHH! O well.

[Anonymous]

Actually, I just learned that one :P

They work fine now, thanks!