Ron H said:
Have you seen
this? Do you not have a turn signal flasher already? I'm still not clear why you have a problem. You said you have momentary switches. Are you saying that they will not stay latched on? Were they meant to be depressed for as long as you want to signal, because motorcycles have no means of self-cancellation such as cars have?
I looked at these units but as far as I can make out they depend on the switch latching, they then turn off even though the switch is still on.
The bike as standard had a 2pole flashing relay. the body picked up -12vdc from the mounting. one of the poles +12dc from the ignition (permanent on while the ignition is on) the last pole had 2 wires connected, 1 to each turn signal switch (that latched on) the other side of each switch had a wire to the appropriate side lights.
it worked like this -power entered the relay and waits till a switch is latched then the circuit is completed for that side and flashing begins and when your done turn the switch off.
The new set up handlebars with controls pre wired with cables through the bars(and not a hope of running an extra cable through) share power in the bars so I end up with 2 wires in the junction box(the headlight) that are either on or off. the new switches are spring loaded momentary contact.
I thought about getting a 2nd relay and just holding the switch, it would work but I think it would be dangerous.There's a lot going on when turning a bike the last thing you need is to be trying to hold the switch on.
The options to get around this that I can think of are:
1:a latching circuit with pulse on pulse off x 2(I use the original relay x 2)
2:a latching circuit with timer off x 2 (I use the original relay x 2)
3:a latching circuit with pulse on pulse off with flashing output x 2
4:a latching circuit with timer off with flashing output x 2
5:I use the original relay x 2 and get used to holding it on
I'm sure there are other ways of doing it that I can't imagine.
Thanks for your interest