Flasher units
- RichardHyde
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Flasher units
Hi, can you recommend more modern electronic flasher units ?
Thanks, Richard
Thanks, Richard
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Re: Flasher units
Richard
Are you using LED Bulbs if you are, you need a Flasher unit for LEDs
Are you using LED Bulbs if you are, you need a Flasher unit for LEDs
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Re: Flasher units
Bought a dozen of these from ebay a couple of years ago, they were about £6 each IIRC. Constant flash rate whatever the load, engine running or not. Work just as well with LED bulbs or normal ones.
This is the only one I have left, can't remember the supplier, but all I did was look up electronic flasher unit, 2 pin.

Only slight snag is, they are a tad too big to fit the clip behind the dash!
Steve
This is the only one I have left, can't remember the supplier, but all I did was look up electronic flasher unit, 2 pin.

Only slight snag is, they are a tad too big to fit the clip behind the dash!
Steve
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Re: Flasher units
I have one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152070987425 in my Dolly and it works really well, and, as Steve says, it gives a constant flash rate all the time, even when idling with headlights and wipers on. It doesn't fit the holder so it just dangles on the wires behind the dash, but it is so light weight there is no strain on the cables.
Mike
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Re: Flasher units
Does it make an audible ticking noise or is it silent?? I do like / need the "mechanical" ticking to remind me I have left the indicator on !!Bumpa wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:27 am I have one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152070987425 in my Dolly and it works really well, and, as Steve says, it gives a constant flash rate all the time, even when idling with headlights and wipers on. It doesn't fit the holder so it just dangles on the wires behind the dash, but it is so light weight there is no strain on the cables.
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Re: Flasher units
What! Doesn't your self-cancelling work? To be serious, no my unit doesn't click but as the cancelling works I have never found it an issue.
Mike
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Re: Flasher units
Thanks for the responses.
Can the same item be used to replace the ‘hazard flasher unit’ and the ‘direction indicator flasher unit’ ?
In other words, should I buy 2 ?
Can the same item be used to replace the ‘hazard flasher unit’ and the ‘direction indicator flasher unit’ ?
In other words, should I buy 2 ?
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Re: Flasher units
These are the ones I switched to after I got bored of the "real" ones being so flakey.
https://www.carbuilder.com/uk/red-2-pin ... sher-relay
Pricey but they are just plug-n-play for both indicators and hazards - and they make a relay type "click" as they go on and off.
https://www.carbuilder.com/uk/red-2-pin ... sher-relay
Pricey but they are just plug-n-play for both indicators and hazards - and they make a relay type "click" as they go on and off.
Re: Flasher units


Yes the self cancel works, amazing I know, but it does. My Sprint is the only car I drive that has virtually no audible "tick" and several times I have realised the indicators are still flashing, usually after I have indicated and overtaken another car as the self cancel doesn't work with small movements of the wheel - so actually it happens quite a lot

Don't know what flasher is currently fitted but think I'll try one of these - needs an earth wire but that's not a problem.
https://www.classiccarleds.co.uk/produc ... king-sound
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1971 Stag Auto White
Too many cars, too little time!
1971 Stag Auto White
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Re: Flasher units
I would have bought one of those if I had found it!
Mike
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Re: Flasher units
Mine clicks! Not terribly loud, but enough for my old, deaf ears to hear above the Rimmers Sports exhaust!
Steve
Oddly, i've not replaced the original hazard flash unit, which seems to work fine without the motor running AND with 2 extra 5w side repeater bulbs in the circuit too! but i'm guessing the electronic ones will do hazards too if need be!
Steve
Oddly, i've not replaced the original hazard flash unit, which seems to work fine without the motor running AND with 2 extra 5w side repeater bulbs in the circuit too! but i'm guessing the electronic ones will do hazards too if need be!
'73 2 door Toledo with Vauxhall Carlton 2.0 8v engine (The Carledo)
'78 Sprint Auto with Vauxhall Omega 2.2 16v engine (The Dolomega)
'72 Triumph 1500FWD in Slate Grey, Now with RWD and Carledo powertrain!
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'78 Sprint Auto with Vauxhall Omega 2.2 16v engine (The Dolomega)
'72 Triumph 1500FWD in Slate Grey, Now with RWD and Carledo powertrain!
Maverick Triumph, Servicing, Repairs, Electrical, Recomissioning, MOT prep, Trackerjack brake fitting service.
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