Date:         Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:53:48 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Turn signals
Comments: To: Mary K Creasy <mkcdc@VERIZON.NET>
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At 05:27 PM 8/10/2010 Tuesday, Mary K Creasy wrote:
>Since this topic is on everyones mind.  I am having a degrading turn signal
>situation.  Right signal started blinking fast.  All lamps are working but
>the front is super bright compared to all others.  ( Seem to remember when
>the resistance is high, this is the effect ??? ).
>Replaced the socket with one of Ken Wilfords recent finds and still the
>same.  Now the left started fast blinking and all lamps are functioning.
>Let the wisdom flow...

Wisdom, huh?  You're asking a lot.

Super-bright either means that all the other bulbs are wrong (this
seems in keeping with the symptoms) or that the filament in the bulb
has broken and rewelded itself in a shorter configuration, in which
case it will burn out very soon.  Perhaps your cat is going out in
the night and messing with your head?  I wouldn't trust *my* cat with
a screwdriver.  Brightness with the lens off should be the same as
brake light -- with lens on considerably brighter than brake light.

Fast-blink is what the relay does when there's not enough load on it,
so you're looking at wrong-bulb or contact problems.  I haven't been
inside one of the relay/flashers, so can't rule it out entirely as
the seat of the problem.  I lie -- I *have* been inside one and can't
remember what if anything I learned about it.

Yrs,
d