Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:55:25 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: green generator dash light glowing
Comments: To: Spencer Allen <soxndubs1951@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:19 PM Spencer Allen <soxndubs1951@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dave you are so right. Five cars and one brain on my part. On the westy
> the green turn signal light has the faint glow. original problem was an
> occasional rapid blinking left turn signal and a buzz from the fuse panel
> relay. I replaced the rear bulb and relay and cleaned the ground wire but
> still have the occasional rapid blink but -so far- no buzz just the glow
> when engine is running. Right side tun signal always normal. Does this
> sound like  bad ground or perhaps a crossed wire someplace. I rewired and
> cleaned the ground a couple of summers ago.
>

The rapid blink is a warning from the flasher relay that you have light
load (burnt out lamp or broken wire or wrong lamp or contact problem) on
that side.  Putting a front lamp in backwards mighjt cause this.

The faint glow is basically an esthetic problem which would never happen if
the lamp wre incandescent.  That lamp would draw about 100 mA to make the
filament glow white hot; whereas an LED will begin to glow with a very few
microamps.  If it doesn't bother you at night it's not worth cjasing.

Yrs,
d