Turn signal issue.

[groundshock]

I *think* I got everything wired back up correctly.

Connected all new LED turn signals, replaced flasher with electronic variant.

When I turn the signals on left or right, all 4 turn signals turn on and will not blink. I've got no turn signal light in the cluster either.

Any ideas?

[GSJohn]

You may end up needing some resistors wired in series with the LEDs to trick the circuit into cooperating. The LEDs take so little current to operate that all of them are coming on due to back feeding. Double check wiring, try disconnecting all but one and experiment with resistors to get it to flash.

[groundshock]

I dont know man, I disconnected all of them and it's the same thing. No turn signal light in the cluster, etc.

I really dont think that its an issue with the LED stuff, but i could be wrong.

[GSJohn]

Hook one of your old ones up(with the others disconnected) and see if the flasher works. If it does...the LEDs are the problem and the flasher needs more circuit resistance to operate. The turn signal light in the cluster will not flash unless the flasher is operating.

[groundshock]

Ill go check it out, brb.

[groundshock]

same crap with either style signal, and either flasher. Dunno man.

[chef1366]

I would have to say your wiring is not right. Sorry I couldn't help you with that.
Get a manual. It will help ALOT!

[groundshock]

I got the wiring diagram, everything seems to be hooked up right. I dunno.

[groundshock]

My biggest question right now is why when I turn the signals on left or right, ALL the signals come on and stay on.

Turn them on to go left, all the lights come on and dont flash, same with the right.

Turn signal switch shot??? Dont know how, it worked before I disassembled the bike for paint.....

[mighty13d]

if all of your connections are good and secure, then you need a resistor thrown in there because there isn't enough resistance to make the flasher click over. Mine would just turn on and not flash when I had a bad connection to the rear blinkers so only the front ones got power. That wasn't enough to click mine over.

[groundshock]

But when you flipped the switch to one side, did both sides come on regardless of where the switch was, left or right?

[Kcwiro]

sounds like you as said by others....

don't have proper resistor wired in to trigger electronic relay LEDS are either on or off... if it were wired backwards you would get zero... crossed somewhere... and you would know it

I wired up my LED turn signals and made all the fittings with Tmwnni in weekend two eight hour days.... long time you say... well when you are making everything and I mean everything by hand.. lots of thought and work...then re-working they work for me with a $5 smucks blazer relay... heh.. they had it mismarked by ten dollars

anyway.. if you don't have resistors on them.. put some on the + lead and you should get enough to trip it.

It is all about having the right tools ... and yes I am using my dremel to stir my beverage.... LOL *priceless*







Good Luck

[tomm]

Can't really tell you what is wrong, but I agree with Chef . . . sounds like the wiring is wrong or there is an open ground and one set of lights is grounding through the other.
Time to break out the voltmeter. Standard process is to check your voltage levels at all the wiring around the turn signals, both hot and ground. Hot should be 12 volts and ground along with wiring that is turned off should be zero. Then start disconnecting things and measuring until you find the problem.
Disconnect all the turn signal wiring. With the bike off, check the resistance of all the ground connections. Look for any that are not zero. Then turn the bike on and check the hot side of the turn signals, again with them disconnected. Turn the switch on and off, looking for 12 volts to turn on and off, but only on the side that the switch is on for. If everything looks good, connect one set of old turn signals and retest. If everything doesn't look right, start tracing back to the relay and then to the switch itself, disconnecting wires until you find the problem. Make sure you check voltage on both hot and ground circuits as well as on the other disconnected lights. Also, remove and add back the bulbs. Eventually, you will find something that is either mis-connected, shorted or open. Another trick is to disconnect and bypass the switch, and run a test wire directly from the battery (with a fuse), to the relay and to each directional, and then measure the voltages on each individual circuit. You are looking to make sure that each circuit works as expected, and the ones that you are not testing are not active.
Once you get it working with your original lights, re-connect the LED's and then deal with the load problem in order to draw enough current to make them blink.
Let us know what you find.

[groundshock]

Interesting results.

Took all the wiring apart again. Replaced all the bullet connectors with insulated spade connectors. Everything is hooked up as it should be.

Voltage tests:
1 - at left blinker, switch in center off position - 0.0v
2 - at right blinker, switch in center off position - 0.0v
3 - at left blinker, switch left position, 11.57v steady
4 - at right blinker, switch left position, 10.52v steady
5 - at left blinker, switch right position, 10.53v steady
6 - at right blinker, switch right position, 11.57v steady

What. The. Hell.

I dont have any stock signals to test with. I have NO idea what the hell is going on here.

[tomm]

You should have either a green/red or an orange wire going to your turn signal relay. On your bike, I believe it is green/red. This is 12 volts into the relay. Should be a sky blue wire coming out of it. This is 12 volts to your switch. There are two wires coming out of your switch. One is black and brings 12 volts to one set of turn signals and the other is green bringing 12 volts to the other set. Each also brings 12 volts to the appropriate turn signal indicator.
The only thing I see different in the wiring diagram for your bike is that there is only one turn signal indicator light shown. Is that correct? The diagram shows the indicator between the black and green wire coming out of the switch, which doesn't make sense to me since no ground is indicated. However, one has to be there somewhere or else it wouldn't work. So I am guessing that the black wire is supposed to be grounded when the green wire is hot, and vice versa, and that ground connection is probably also in the switch. If that ground was broken, then either directional would turn both sets of lights on, with one set getting 12 volts directly from the switch and the other getting 12 volts through the indicator bulb.
Your voltage readings would seem to support that since the voltage at the directionals opposite to the switch is about 1 volt lower than the voltage to the directionals aligned with the switch.
So either a bad directional switch or a bad ground, I'm guessing to the directional switch. I would suspect the ground. It would be a wire, probably black/white running from the directional switch to frame ground. Just can't explicitly find it in the wiring diagram. But it is the only way that the wiring diagram in the Clymer's manual for your bike makes any sense.
As a test, you might try the following:
With the directional signal, turned to the left, ground the 12 volt wire going to the right directionals. Just touch it really quickly, because if I'm wrong, it's going to spark. But if I'm right, the indicator light should light up, the right directionals should go out, and the left directionals should blink. Then reverse it, turning the directionals to the right and grounding the 12 volt wire to the left directionals. The right directionals should blink. Bottom line, I'm betting that the 'wrong' directionals are getting their 12 volts through the indicator light and not directly from a 12 volt line. So grounding it just lights up the indicator light.
Let us know what you find.