Re: Strange turn/signal light behaviour

["James H. Nazarian, Ph. D." <microdoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Before you go digging into the wiring on your bike, I suggest you take the 
simple approach first: Change the turn signal bulbs. They only cost a couple 
dollars apiece and they are often the cause of intermittent operation in 
both bikes and cars. Next step is to replace any faulty or questionable lamp 
sockets. They too are subject to very slight amounts of mechanical 
distortion and corrosion... just enough to let things stop working.

Jim
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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pascal Voury" <pascal@xxxxxxxx>
To: <oilheads@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <pascal@xxxxxxxx>; "Cees de Groot" <cdegroot@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: Strange turn/signal light behaviour


>I have the same behavior on my '98 11R.
> I've learned the list wisdom, dismoumted every bulb holder,
> whiped everything with alcoohol despite there was only dust,
> nothing corroded.
> I even scratched the bulb lead contacts.
> Nothing changed, I still have 10 seconds of normal blinking,
> then the blinking goes twice as fast until I cancel.
> I'm considering
> 1/ some dirt on the rear bulb wires contacts under the saddle,
> or (PITA) bad wires somewhere
> 2/ a tired (170 mkm) "blinking" unit (I use the turn signals a lot)
>
> Suprisingly, when flashing the 4 bulbs I never have any problem
> (that would push point 2/)
>
> Pascal
>
> PS : <perso> Cees, I found back my Saeng edging after my moving.
>     Are you still interested ?
>
> Pascal

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