• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

LED Relay, will a 3 lead relay work?

S

SepticSkeptic

Husqvarna
B Class
I have BD LED's all round w/ a 2 lead relay. I'm trouble shooting it and all everyone local carries is 3 lead relays. What is the 3rd for? Can I make it work?

The problem.

Relay (Signals off)
In: ~14v
Out: ~13v

Relay (Signals On)
In: ~14v
Out: Pulses between 2v-2.5v (roughly, hard to say exactly given the refresh rate of my voltimeter)

At the signals (on).
Hot: Pulses between 2v-2.5v


I originally thought I somehow fried all four signals when I blew a fuze, so I tried swapping out on of the LEDs. Didn;t work. The LEDs when triggered flash for a moment the are very dim and steady. It's been suggested that I may have a short somewhere but I've isolated the leads to the signals so it would have to be in the main wiring harness. Meaning taking the entire bike apart again to check it thoroughly.

I just assembled the bike a couple days ago, signals worked. I was supposed to have left this morning for a 3mo ride. :banghead: Which is why I don't want to wait days until I can have a replacement shipped if one of the 3 lead relays down the street will work.

EDIT: It's Sorted, I was able to track down a 2 lead relay, swapped it out and presto, problem solved. NO bad wiring/ground to track down.

Thanks anyway.
 
Received the Registration paper for my Husky in the mail last week and it had the dreaded “Inspection Required” notification.

Had given the bike a quick check over recently and determined it was time to re-establish the rear blinkers so as to keep the RTA inspector happy.

Rather than putting the poxy standard blinkers back on, I elected to fit a set of LED low profile flasher units. A quick trip out to the local bike shop and I was soon in possession of a reasonably sturdy set. Even fitted some resistors in series, so as to trick the flasher unit into thinking nothing had changed….Hooked it all up and NOTHING….Bugger :doh:

Had another look the next day and was surprised to find that the flasher “indicator” light on the dash was flashing but not the actual blinkers. Fiddled around a bit and managed to get the flashers working correctly….PHEW!!! Boxed it all back up again, put all the covers etc on and checked the flashers once more and NOTHING… Double Bugger :doh: :doh:

Tried once again the next day, but was still unable to get anything to work….So, in desperation, broke out the multimeter, a pencil and paper and traced out the circuitry.

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After testing for continuity etc through the circuit, I came to the conclusion that the “Flasher” unit was fritzed. Tried to source a genuine replacement on the net without any success, so decided to try and find a suitable replacement unit at Repco (Auto Parts shop)

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Repco had a few units, but as I now had mixture of flasher types on the bike I elected to go with a two wire "variable load" electronic unit.

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Had to modify the terminals on my bikes wiring to suit, but soon had the unit hooked up and flashing correctly...

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BTW…The Electroning flasher unit cost $14. A bargain considering it works with a mixture of normal and LED flashers and still blinks at the correct frequency…

The Blinkers are made by DRC

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For those interested in the lettering on flasher units, the following may be of interest..

L Lamps or indicator switch
P Pilot
X Battery (+) or ignition
B Battery (+) or ignition
E Earth (-)
49 Battery (+) or ignition
49a Lamps or indicator switch
31 Earth (-)
 
I followed the tip given by seahorse to rectify the exact same issue as he had

worked a treat and was a very fast and easy to do

Thank you Seahorse
 
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