From: Bjorn Brandstedt (super_deuce@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005 - 15:31:26 PDT
To help the flasher situation, here are a few soulutions:
1) Get a new one and keep your fingers crossed
2) Get a new one made in the 1960's. Best solution, hard to find, though.
3) Add a relay. Let the flasher drive a relay, which in turn switches the
lamps. A 40 amp automotive relay should do it.
4) Replace some of the lights with LED types to lower the current drain.
Hoping this helps,
Bjorn
>From: <m151@cox.net>
>To: "Bjorn Brandstedt" <super_deuce@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Re: [MV] M151A2 electrical problem
>Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:49:05 -0400
>
>You know, now that yo mention it, this all started when I began using a
>trailer!!
>
>From: "Bjorn Brandstedt" <super_deuce@hotmail.com>
>Date: 2005/04/05 Tue AM 07:07:26 EDT
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] M151A2 electrical problem
>
>I second that. The newer flasher units aren't designed like they were
>during
>the 60's. I have taken several apart and discovered that first hand. They
>fail apparently because the power transistor can't handle the inrush
>current
>from the cold filaments, especially when you add a trailer with extra
>lights.
>The old units could handle an overload to the point that the circuit
>breaker
>would trip. They used an SCR in the circuit.
>
>Turn signals are important in any kind of traffic and I keep a couple of
>extras in my deuce.
>
>Bjorn
>MVPA 19212
>Meadows of Dan, Virginia
>
>
> >From: joeyounginc@aol.com
> >To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >Subject: Re: [MV] M151A2 electrical problem
> >Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:43:54 -0400
> >
> >Dave,
> >Probably the electronic flasher.
> >Joe Young
> >
> >
> >===Mil-Veh is a member-supported mailing list===
> >To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: <mil-veh-off@mil-veh.org>
> >To switch to the DIGEST mode, send e-mail to <mil-veh-digest@mil-veh.org>
> >To reach a human, contact <ack@mil-veh.org>
>
>
>
>===Mil-Veh is a member-supported mailing list===
>To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: <mil-veh-off@mil-veh.org>
>To switch to the DIGEST mode, send e-mail to <mil-veh-digest@mil-veh.org>
>To reach a human, contact <ack@mil-veh.org>
>
>
>David W. Brubaker
>KC0NZN
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat May 07 2005 - 20:42:52 PDT