Emergency Flashers Don't Flash - why?

My issue with my toad was caused by soysauceitis. At one time dependable flasher brands that just quit after several months. No LEDs, no shorts, no longs, nothing but failure in heavy traffic and BOTH times it was north of the border. You have not seen misery until you lay on your back on the floorboard, reach up to your elbow extract the old flasher then braille a replacement into the socket. I was pulled over in San Diego, and had to argue with the cop that old fashioned, out the window hand signals did not deserve a citation. I purchased a blowup proof Sure Power electronic flasher. The mechanic in Tijuana did not have rail-thin arms. He extracted his arm minus a strip of skin about 8 inches in length. Bleeding. He refused a tip. The MoPar flasher failed. Then A Warner. Then an Ideal. The last two were long heavy duty flashers. The Sure power will flash with 30 milliamps of load. It has an 80 amp 200 volt power transistor and is short and reverse polarity proof. One spec has it dumping into a short for forty plus hours. I wired a buzzer into the circuit then throttled the audio with duct tape.

And no one is bothering to keep records of failures. Wotta hoot. The 1157 light bulb used to last for many years. The 3157 lasts perhaps a year if night driving or stop & go is common. Yup, real progress.