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DougG 
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Posted: 28 Nov 2011 at 6:33pm |
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Im using the factory wiring to put the flashing yellow lights on a 180; cant get them to flash - i changed the flasher , nuthing , the test light shows good fire going in , but a weak fire going out of flasher ; do they make a safety light that just has a built in flasher that you can just run a hot wire too and be done ? I hate wiring and ALLIS had a bunch of it
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Orange Blood
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Posted: 28 Nov 2011 at 6:44pm |
They do make a flashing/rotating beacon kinda like the ones on the new tractors.
My guess is if you are getting little to no voltage coming out, it is either a bad flasher, or the wire heading to the light itself has a short to ground in it, thus drawing down the voltage.
Hope this helps
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Posted: 28 Nov 2011 at 7:30pm |
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If you are using a high impedance test light it will act like there is no power coming out of the flasher. It will dim away to nothing and stay dim. That is normal. Using a cheap test light with an automotive style bulb in it and you can eliminate that problem.
Having said that removing the flasher from the circuit and jumping it with a piece of wire should make both lights come on solid. If one or both do not light you have wiring issues down the line somewhere, or the lights themselves have a poor ground.
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Posted: 28 Nov 2011 at 7:57pm |
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Are you sure the flasher relay is good? When I did the flashers on my 180 I had a couple extra relays and most of them were bad, except for the one I have in it now.
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Posted: 28 Nov 2011 at 8:09pm |
Try removing the flasher and bridging a wire directly from the flasher supply wire to each lamp wire. If everything lights up good, the problem has to be your flasher.
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Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 6:42pm |
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I have very dim light coming out of the flasher ; tried 2 new ones same out come , bridged across and have a good bright light on both lights ; getting aggrivating again
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Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 6:47pm |
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maybe you're using a heavy duty flasher, and only 2 bulbs wont throw the breaker. A flasher is simply a circuit breaker that opens and closes repeatedly. Not enough load, try hooking several more lights to it with a jumper wire just for grins.
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Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 6:50pm |
That's were I was going
When the ol chevy burns out a single light, the other one isn't enough to make it flash, and it burns dim.
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Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 7:35pm |
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Doug, your flasher circuit is a simple one. A switch to turn them on and off, a 2 wire flasher, and the bulbs. Without looking at a schematic, from battery voltage it could be either the switch first or the flasher first. Like Roddo says, use an ordinary test light and start at the beginning. One of those terminals on the flasher is going to be battery voltage and should give a nice bright test light. If you don't have a nice bright test light, work your way back toward the battery. Check the switch, look for corroded connections. You can do it, just take 1 step at a time.
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Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 7:41pm |
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Thats what i thought , this should be simple !!!!
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Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 9:42pm |
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If you have a good bright light once you jump across the flasher something has be be wrong with the flasher. Now it could be something wrong with the that flasher or it could be the wrong flasher, but it has to be at the flasher.
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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 8:19am |
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Are you using a two prong flasher? If you are using a three prong flasher it will work but the plug wires will need to move in the plug.
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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 11:32am |
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Use an electronic flasher, any auto store will have them.
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