You've got 3 options. You could change the flasher unit for an electronic one that will flash at the correct rate no matter how much current is being drawn although I have no idea what sort of flasher unit is fitted and without going outside and taking my bike to bits, don't even know where it lives (under the tank or next to the battery I would suspect but I've never had cause to look for it) so can't tell you what sort you need. You could put resistors in parallel with the lights so each one draws more current to fool the flasher into thinking it is driving a pair of 21W bulbs but you'd need 8 or 10 Ohm resistors capable of handling 10W minimum so they would need to be big ceramic things and not cheap. Or, if you want to go for the cheap n dirty approach, just put a 12V 10W car sidelight bulb in parallel with each indicator. You could wrap them up and hide them inside the fairing on the front and in where your toolkit lives at the back.
You'd need those resistors in series fella. You'd need the additional bulbs in series also. Sorry if it's sucking eggs time but in series means inline NOT across
Quote from: rustyrider on 20 May 2014, 10:58:16 pmYou've got 3 options. You could change the flasher unit for an electronic one that will flash at the correct rate no matter how much current is being drawn although I have no idea what sort of flasher unit is fitted and without going outside and taking my bike to bits, don't even know where it lives (under the tank or next to the battery I would suspect but I've never had cause to look for it) so can't tell you what sort you need. You could put resistors in parallel with the lights so each one draws more current to fool the flasher into thinking it is driving a pair of 21W bulbs but you'd need 8 or 10 Ohm resistors capable of handling 10W minimum so they would need to be big ceramic things and not cheap. Or, if you want to go for the cheap n dirty approach, just put a 12V 10W car sidelight bulb in parallel with each indicator. You could wrap them up and hide them inside the fairing on the front and in where your toolkit lives at the back.You'd need those resistors in series fella. You'd need the additional bulbs in series also. Sorry if it's sucking eggs time but in series means inline NOT across. If you put 2x10w resistance (bulbs or resistors) in parallel you will have 5w of load making them flash even faster.The big ceramic ones are not required - just the usual Maplin jobs at about £3 per 100.
You've got 3 options............
To increase the load the flasher sees you need to put the resistors in parallel.
though, if 21W bulbs are available to suit those indicators, that would have been a better choice.