electrical question, how to make clearance lights blink
Seeking instructions/guidance to what I need to do to make clearance lights blink? Trailer is plugged into 110 volt.
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OP, if help can't find the right street, not sure how a light signal would help. But for what you are looking for, maybe a strobe that shines on house or trees in yard?
Back before cars got all loaded up with FREDs, the standard flasher would stop blinking the lights when a bulb burned out. This was by design, indicate to people that did not check their lights there was a problem. And if you added more lights, would flash faster. But part of installing a trailer hitch was replace standard with "heavy duty" flasher. HD did not stop flashing when a bulb was out. I don't know the upper limit on number of bulbs, but sure there is one. I do know that using the flasher jumped in in place of a fuse can be a great help in finding shorts.
Skibane wrote:Boon Docker wrote:
Newer vehicles have led lights and the flasher works for those, so no reason why it would not work for a trailer.
The old-style mechanical flashers tend to be pretty picky about how much current will make them blink - and how fast they'll blink.
One bulb would burn out, and suddenly you had all the others no longer blinking. Add a couple more bulbs on a trailer, and suddenly you had them all hyper-blinking dozens of times per second.
Back before cars got all loaded up with FREDs, the standard flasher would stop blinking the lights when a bulb burned out. This was by design, indicate to people that did not check their lights there was a problem. And if you added more lights, would flash faster. But part of installing a trailer hitch was replace standard with "heavy duty" flasher. HD did not stop flashing when a bulb was out. I don't know the upper limit on number of bulbs, but sure there is one. I do know that using the flasher jumped in in place of a fuse can be a great help in finding shorts.
