LOL!

You must be right up there with Jerry and almost older than dirt too....

They went electronic a while back and I thought the electronic ones
don't give a crap if they have 0, 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 bulbs, they
will still flash evenly.

I know the one in our Cherokee flashes just fine with a burnt out rear
signal and so does the one in my CJ7.

Grrr..... I hate that feature! I 'want' to know when I have a bad bulb
and the flasher either flashing fast or not at all used to tell me.

I can't see LED lights not flashing with one of those flashers?????

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's


Lee Ayrton wrote:
>
> When did they change over to solid state? Every flasher module I ever
> took apart was a thermal flasher built around a bimetal strip with a set
> of points at one end. If a lamp was out the circuit wouldn't pull enough
> current to properly heat the strip and it wouldn't flash as quickly.
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Jeff Strickland wrote:
>
> > Back in the olden days, the flasher was a simple RC network, resistor
> > capacitor, that charged and discharged to control the blink rate. The
> > resistor was the filiment in the lamps. You are taking the resistor out of
> > the circuit, assuming the circuit is still an RC network. You can simply
> > splice a resistor in line that mimics the resistance of the lamp filiment,
> > and the flasher will never know that it is powering an LED array.
> >
> > I would use a 1/4 watt, 470 ohm resistor, or there abouts. Practice with a
> > couple, or just measure the resistance of a brake lamp bulb, then get a
> > resistor that is within about 10% of that value, and can handle relatively
> > hight current. You don't really need the current capability, but this will
> > provide overheat protection if the brake lights are on for a very long time.
> > You'll need a resistor on both the left and the right side.
> >
> > The Turn Signals and the Brake Lamps are the same part of the lamp/LED
> > assembly, and the Running Lamps are a different part. Be sure to add the
> > resistor to the turn signal/brake lamp side of the assembly.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Intergate" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> I am going to convert my taillights to the LED round Flush mount. I
> >> have read many articles on what needs to be done but all were done on
> >> pre 2001 TJ's.
> >>
> >> The problem will be the flasher will need to be changed cause it will
> >> flash to fast.
> >>
> >> All the mods I have seen to solve the problem were done on the pre
> >> 2001 Flasher.
> >>
> >> They changed in 2001. I have a 2004 TJ
> >>
> >> Any body done this on a 2001 or newer and solved the problem?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tim
> >>
> >> [____]
> >> (OIIIIIIO)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> "I defer to your plainly more vivid memories of topless women with
> whips....r"
> R. H. Draney recalls AFU in the Good Old Days.