Topic: Will this LED flasher work?

[grumpy]

I'm going to order some things from superbrightleds.com.
They have a flasher unit that looks like it'll work but I'd like a second opinion before I order it.
This one should work for a 750K3, right?



Second from the bottom of the page:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/flashers.htm

Full specs & schematic:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/specs/LFS-1-PIN.html

[Bodi]

Yes. It will work for normal bulbs too, or a mix like front bulbs and rear LEDs.

[grumpy]

Cool

THANKS!!

[Gorms]

You can use any electronic flasher from a car to flash LED's, they will just flash faster...the same speed a car would with a burnt bulb.  I found that you can replace a resistor within then with a potentiometer to change the flash speed if you are so inclined.  Might be better to just go with the flasher you have there though.

[Gordon]

The universal, electronic flasher relays you can buy at your auto parts store will work fine for LED bulbs, too, and there isn't any issue with them flashing faster than normal because of the decrease in current draw. 

[Gorms]

I have found differently, Gordon.  Mine flashes fast; faster than the car I ripped it out of for the same reason that your blinkers flash fast when you burn a bulb and draw less current.

[Bodi]

It depends on the exact flasher you use. Most (almost all) have an "alternate flash rate" either faster or slower, that's supposed to alert you to a burnt out signal bulb. Some don't have this "feature" but I don't know of any way to tell before you try one. The advantage of this flasher from superbrightleds is that it doesn't have that, it flashes at around 90/min regardless of load.
I use a Tridon 3-wire flasher that flashes fast with LEDs but this is OK with me and I could modify it to flash slower if I really wanted to, it just needs a resistor cut and a jumper installed on the circuit board. Normal two wire flashers have problems: the electromechanical ones will not flash with LEDs and the electronic ones will flash LEDs but they flash "off first" - when you switch on the signal the lamp is dark for a half second or so then starts flashing. That bothers me, I want the lamp ON immediately when I turn the switch. The three wire electronic ones start with the lamp on. Three terminal electromechanical flasher don't work with LEDs either.

[Gordon]

I have found differently, Gordon.  Mine flashes fast; faster than the car I ripped it out of for the same reason that your blinkers flash fast when you burn a bulb and draw less current.

I said the "universal electronic flasher relays you can buy at an auto parts store", not one you rip out of a car.  They're not the same, and the universal kind from the parts store don't flash faster even when a bulb is burned out, or even removed completely, or if one or more of them is an LED.  They flash at the same rate no matter what.  That's why I recommended it.      

[Gorms]

OK thanks.

[Gordon]

Sorry.  I was actually trying to be more specific, not sound like a dick.