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Today I installed a 0.27 ohm 2 watt resistor to replace the ~0.030 nichrome(?) metal link and now the flasher relay seems to work fine, proper blink rate, with the original incandescents or LED lamps.
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Will, instead of a different relay, just run a dummy load resistor.
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Today I installed a 0.27 ohm 2 watt resistor to replace the ~0.030 nichrome(?) metal link and now the flasher relay seems to work fine, proper blink rate, with the original incandescents or LED lamps.
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I've been in the process of converting as many light bulbs, stop, street/parking, marker, etc, to LED type lamps.
The turn signal lamp flasher system has me stumped.
The factory flasher relay (branded VW ) is solid state yet it will not flash at the "standard" rate with a low bulb current draw. Also the pin-out, 3 "lugs", has exactly the same physical layout as the solid state one in my 2001 E350 MH.
But every "third-party" flasher relay that I try will blow the 15 amp turn signal fuse.
Anyone with experience or ideas for a solution?
Will, instead of a different relay, just run a dummy load resistor.
www.jamstrait.com
has one,
http://www.jamstrait.com/loadeq.html
, and you can find more with google probably.
Ths solid state relays still flash fast or not at all with low current bulbs, it is a bulb check.
Disassembled the factory flasher relay today and I'm pretty sure I found the small resistance that is used to detect that the total current draw is equal to or greater than the ~2 amps that it takes to power two 1156 incandescent turn signal bulbs. Actually just a simple metal "U" link through which the lamp current must flow, each end connected to a separate pin of an intergrated circuit. Drop across the link is 0.061 volts with 2 amps of current flow. Now I need to measure the current flow for powering two 1156 LED lamps and replace the link with a resistor size that drops ~61 millivolts.
Tomorrow.
It's now tomorrow.
Type 1156 turn signal lamp draws 1.86 amps at ~13 volts, vs 0.180 amps for my chosen LED lamp, Velocity Leds. Looks like a 0.3 ohm 2 watt resister will work and fit into the assembly easily.
Today I installed a 0.27 ohm 2 watt resistor to replace the ~0.030 nichrome(?) metal link and now the flasher relay seems to work fine, proper blink rate, with the original incandescents or LED lamps. Flasher relay cover was easily removed and the nichrome link/resistance is all too obvious.
