cwah
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I have exactly the same flasher, but when I connect it to my HobbyKing led strip (http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=14289), it doesn't work at all. Any idea why?
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kmxtornado
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You might be asking the wrong dude. The Dummy that the title of this thread is referring to is me. I just followed Cohberg's instructions with some basic knowledge I gathered on Youtube. In my experience with LED strips though, I experienced breaking one by accidentally connecting the wrong positive/negative poles. If your strip is similar to the ones I've used, two tiny little wires come out from it and they both appear to be the same color. When looking more carefully though, you'll notice one is golden. That gold one is the positive end. If you ever connect a negative pole to that end, it'll bust the LED and it's no good. Broken forever. At least that's what happened to me.
Another thing may be that there are too many LED's and you can't power so many with your power source. Have you tried powering it w/o the flasher?
You might also have a bad flasher in which case a replacement would be the way to go.
Again, I have no clue. These are all guesses but I'm doing my best to help. Sorry I can't give you any expert advice.
Another thing may be that there are too many LED's and you can't power so many with your power source. Have you tried powering it w/o the flasher?
You might also have a bad flasher in which case a replacement would be the way to go.
Again, I have no clue. These are all guesses but I'm doing my best to help. Sorry I can't give you any expert advice.
cwah
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Thanks for your answer. I've purchased another universal flasher to see if that works with my Hobbyking led strips. They work perfectly fine without flasher. It's just that I don't know where to find one that is compatible. Will probably find something one day :lol:
The little elecrtronic flasher that came in my old junked ScootNGo worked with the homemade LED turn signals I used on DayGlo Avenger. Those only drew a little over 100mA, IIRC (it's been at least 3 years, so...you'd have to verify that on my Electricle blog).
I expect a replacement can be had from the cheap scooter replacement parts websites, of which there are several. It runs on 12V, and has only two connections, positive and negative, like the old thermal flashers.
If I knew where it was at, I would get some pics so someone coudl reverse-engineer a schematic for it, in case anyone wanted to build a copy. But there are a number of circuits that will do what it does, easy to build even without a PCB, and can easily be found with a web search.
I expect a replacement can be had from the cheap scooter replacement parts websites, of which there are several. It runs on 12V, and has only two connections, positive and negative, like the old thermal flashers.
If I knew where it was at, I would get some pics so someone coudl reverse-engineer a schematic for it, in case anyone wanted to build a copy. But there are a number of circuits that will do what it does, easy to build even without a PCB, and can easily be found with a web search.
kmxtornado
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There are a number on youtube. If your eyes are good enough, maybe you can freeze the frame and see the spec:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDadffhPRrQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpHmBuQUqz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobJi2LVe6E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDadffhPRrQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpHmBuQUqz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobJi2LVe6E
cwah
100 MW
My led flasher from HobbyKing amber led strip 8)
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