Wi | casetech - 2/25/2014 18:20 Going to replace my flashing light assemblies from the incandecent style to LED. Its on a 5088 IH with the flasher turn signal combo. I thought I read on NAT about the flasher not able to work because of lack of resistance, I haven't got the lights yet so I haven't tried them. Had anyone had experience with such?
Old school thermal flashers require the resistance from the lights in the circuit in order to flash properly. In simple terms its a coiled wire that heats up and sags then makes contact to flash the light, then it cools and retracts. The LED's don't draw enough power so if the flasher even flashes at all it will do it very rapidly.
You can go wire in resistors at every light or you can just replace the flasher with an HD flasher like trucks use. They use electromagets to flash and are not dependent on the light's current draw. |
LED flashing light on tractors
