electronic flasher for 1st gens

[timgray]

anyone find an electronic turn signal flasher that works on our bikes? I was told by 3 shops that any "car flasher" will work. they dont.

[MiCarl]

Tim,

 

I'm too lazy to get up on my sore foot and look, but speaking generally:

 

There should be 3 leads to the stock flasher. One is power, another goes to the lights and the 3rd is for the auto cancel.

 

When you use an automotive flasher you don't need/use the cancel lead.

 

The only bike I ever converted was a TX500. While the plug would go on the flasher the wiring was wrong. I ended up cutting off the plug, capping the line for the auto cancel and hooked the two remaining wires to the lugs on the electronic flasher. Worked just fine.

 

I expect you are having a similar issue.

[rhncue]

anyone find an electronic turn signal flasher that works on our bikes? I was told by 3 shops that any "car flasher" will work. they dont.

 

The answer is yes and no. Yes they will work but there must be a modification to the plug. Yamaha, whom likes to sell their parts, changed their flashers so that the circuitry to the prongs that the wires connect to the are different to an autos prongs. I had this problem on an 80XL11. I used a jumper to see the correct wires to prongs sequence so that the auto flasher would work and then just cut and reversed those two wires going to the plug. I don't know what Yamaha wants for a flasher now-a-days but in the 80s it was 33.00 compared to about 4.00 for autos.

 

Dick