"...do you have any high-strung teenage girls around the
place?� Do plates mysteriously fall out of the china cupboard?"
�
No, but occasionally we have mice and our one-eyed Walker hound hoots gently when he feels like he's not getting enough attention.
�
Stephen

--- On Mon, 11/15/10, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: turn signal indicator weirdness
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 12:50 PM

At 09:12 AM 11/15/2010� -0800, mark drillock wrote:
>Well he said that all 4 outside turn signals work in turn signal
>mode and if true that removes the turn signal switch as a possible issue.

I've had people *say* a lot of things that weren't necessarily true
(he said darkly).

>The key to me is when the dash indicator works in 4 way mode but not
>2 way. Twice as many paths to ground in 4 way mode. 4 bulb filaments
>in parallel going to ground versus only 2. Either something is
>holding the voltage slightly high at the flasher pin 3 and it takes
>the 4 filaments to bleed it off, OR the total path to ground is not
>strong enough when only 2 bulbs are connected via the turn switch.
>The tests I gave him may help pin this down, if he does them all.

Yeah.� Just remember, we're talking about two or three amps per side
pulling down a 20 ma LED that will light at least a little if the
voltage at 49a gets to below say nine volts.� Which ought to make the
signal bulbs stay lit up, wouldn't you think?

He'll do the tests, and we certainly need the answers.� But for the
moment I'm favoring the poltergeist theory.� Or the phlogiston theory
maybe.� Stephen, do you have any high-strung teenage girls around the
place?� Do plates mysteriously fall out of the china cupboard?

:)
d