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Old 11-06-2004, 12:41 PM
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Re: Fast Blinking...

You donīt use the same relay for the emergency flashers, I believe the turn signal relay is supposed to do that, it needs to be heated up by the current going through the system to interrupt the flow of current for a little while and when it cools it lights up again. When a bulb goes out, you donīt get the same current through the circuit, so it flashes faster to let you know the bulb is out. With a plain light bulb you probably have 3 amps going through the circuit, with a LED you may have depending on the amount of leds on the "bulb" only abuot 0.6 amps, so the flasher thinks a bulb is out. This is great as far as leaving your parking lights on all night and you wonīt drain the battery. See if your turn relays are thermal or thermic, there might be a different type of relay in an autopart store. I know in the past the turn signal was controlled with a thermal flasher relay, I would think by now they would have put an electronically timed circuit in there but you never know with GM
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