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On my last outing the turn signal flasher died in the middle of the Veterans Day parade. I didn't have another one on the shelf so I went looking for a solution. What I found was a 12-24v flasher unit from Grote (44010) that will work with both regular lamps and LED lights up to 12 amps which should be plenty of current for our vehicles. The best price was on Amazon at $29 with 2 day delivery. This is what I did when I received it.
Here's the flasher and the gutted Nartron flasher unit:
Make sure not to cut the pins coming into the case from the 3 pin connector. You need to solder the wires back onto them.
Remove the heatshrink from the wires on the flasher and cut the leads to about a 3" length and tin the ends of the wires:
Solder the cables like this:
a is the flasher output (green)
b is power in (red)
c is ground (black)
Here's the finished flasher. It could be potted with RTV for waterproofing if necessary:
Final cost was about $32 and an hours work. When it's remounted it will look exactly like the original because the Grote flasher is on the top side of the original one behind the dash.
Kurt
Here's the flasher and the gutted Nartron flasher unit:
Make sure not to cut the pins coming into the case from the 3 pin connector. You need to solder the wires back onto them.
Remove the heatshrink from the wires on the flasher and cut the leads to about a 3" length and tin the ends of the wires:
Solder the cables like this:
a is the flasher output (green)
b is power in (red)
c is ground (black)
Here's the finished flasher. It could be potted with RTV for waterproofing if necessary:
Final cost was about $32 and an hours work. When it's remounted it will look exactly like the original because the Grote flasher is on the top side of the original one behind the dash.
Kurt
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