Anyone know where I can get a Run-About flasher? I need an adjustable flasher to slow down my LED blinkers. Thanks!

 

um, first off... how much do you want for that car!?!? that is sooo nice!! what spoiler is that on there??

Autozone and other car parts stores have a "variable rate" flasher... the only down-fall to it is that its a mechanical flasher, so they tend to be a little loud compared to the electronic flashers found in most honda cars.

A variable rate flasher can be made, using the stock flasher... but it does not work well with LED's... the LED's draw so little current, it makes the flasher "think" there is a bulb out... being that the flasher in your car has a "system" that makes the bulbs flash fast when a bulb is out, even if you vary the rate of flash, it still does not flash as it should. The speed may seem right... but the "on-time" of the signals is not what it should be.

If you go to a store that sells the LED Truck lights... they SHOULD have a flasher that is made for LED lights... some of them are expensive though, like $50... but they work nice.

 

you can open the flasher up, and change the resister to slow it down a bit.

 

I'd get a 1 mega ohm pot and slap in in the stock relay. Cost you all of $2 if you have a soldering iron.

 

SumAccordGuy94, thanks for the compliment. The wing is made by Value Sports. I had it imported from Japan through www.value-caraudio.com

I bought a variable load flasher from Autozone yesterday. They only had a mechanical 2 prong one. My car uses one electronic flasher for both the hazards and blinkers. The stock flasher has 3 prongs. Power, ground, and load. I rigged some wires to the variable load flasher and plugged it into the power and load slots. With key off, it has no power. When you hit the hazard switch, it gets power and the hazards work fine. With key on it automatically gets power without pressing anything. The hazards work fine with key on also, but the blinkers don't blink. They just stay on dim. Whats going on?

So if I open the stock flasher theres only one resistor in there? I dont want to replace the wrong one. I found a fully electronic flasher at www.libertek.com but its made to replace a 2 prong unit. I'm not sure about the Run-about either. BTW, the Jam Strait LEDs are great. They light up both my tails and front blinkers perfectly! I highly recommend them. Get the Hyper series though. They're blinding to look at.

 

Whats a pot? A resistor?

Oh, I forgot to mention, the stock flasher is variable load. The one I bought from Autozone is a Heavy Duty Variable load flasher without bulb outage warning. The bulb outage warning is whats causing the problems.

 

not sure if your 3 prong electronic flasher is the same as ours, but here's a great page on cryo's how to part of his site.

http://www.andrews.edu/~johnsonm/how...erblinker.html

 

Better shots of the wing for SumAccordGuy94.

 

Thanks a lot illusion! I'm gonna try that tomorrow!!!

 

Someone told me if I add a de-solder the resistor inside the stock flasher and add a 100K Linear Potentiometer its gonna limit current to the LED's and make them less bright. Is this true? I’d rather have them fast than dim.