[simpits-tech] LED Resistors

[Roy Coates]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 mysticz28@swbell.net wrote:

> Thanks for the help. I'm wasted on a billion kinds of drugs right now
> and having a bit of trouble digesting all that, but I'll be better in
> the morning ;) I'll breadboard the thing, plug it in, and see what
> happens.
>
> I just had a thought. You know how most turn signals have a thermal
> flasher that makes an audible clicky, springy noise as it cycles? Well,
> this bike doesn't make that noise. I suspect that the flasher is
> actually solid state (prob. a 555 or maybe just a simple RC circuit). It
> makes sense as there's a red box that controls the automatic cancelling
> signals anyway. If the engineers had a few spare brain cells sitting
> around they would have done away with the flashers and made it solid
> state, or at least that's what I would have done. If that's how they did
> it, likely with a transistor doing the switching, this whole discussion
> is a bit wasted since the resistance wouldn't matter.
>
> I'll take a look at some things tomorrow and see what I can figure out.
> Thanks again for the help, Stig. Ya know, this group is one of the best
> resources I have for more reasons than I can think of in my current drug
> induced state ;)

Just remove a bulb and see if it influences the flash speed of the
remaining ones. If it doesn't -then they've obviously used some form of
solid state unit and LED's should be fine.

Now, about those drugs..... ;)

Roy.