Anyone use Grote flasher unit 44010? I am looking at replacing my flasher unit since I have front and rear LED lights (plus two incandescent lollipop lights). This grote unit says it is designed to work with LED and handles up to 12 amps which I think will handle all the LEDs and a couple incandescent lollipop lights. Anyone use this unit?
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Anyone use Grote flasher unit 44010 on Deuce?
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A site search for "44010" found this thread, http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showth...ed-External-Cage-A-C-and-more-Project!/page20
I saw that but all it says is that he bought it and planned to install it. I will read back through all the pages again but I don't think he ever revisited it.
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what is wrong with the stock one, it is electronic and flashes at the same rate regardless of load and will even work fine with 12 volts.
Since switching to LED it was flashing at different rates between sides, one had a burnt lollipop light. I removed it from the circuit until a new bulb arrives and now none flash. They light solid when on, each side, even the one with the incandescent bulb in the series.
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you just have a bad flasher.
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Before you buy a new flasher. Remove the bulb in your turn signal switch. If the signal lights work like they should, replace the bulb with an Led one. I had the same problem on my 925a2. I got the fix info here. Its for a HMMWV. http://galuba.org/LED-Trucklite.pdf
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it's the same flasher and that fix does not stand the scrutiny from an electrical view. in other words it just happened by chance that the flasher started working, there is simply no way the indicator bulb has any bearing on the function of the system.
with respect to truck lite, it's very likely they had a vehicle with some bad grounds. a 'sneak path'? really?
with respect to truck lite, it's very likely they had a vehicle with some bad grounds. a 'sneak path'? really?
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That little memo came out from truck-lite due to a widely known problem with HMMWVs and led signals. Im not saying that the flasher should be ruled out, but in my case I had all newly grounded lights and I tried two different new flashers and my truck still produced the same problem. I removed the bulb and replaced it with a led equivalent and everything worked like a charm. I would have still been cursing my signal lights if I wouldn't have found that little bit of info.
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It looks like it should. You will have to do away with your three pin connector. How much does one cost? I believe the oem one usually runs around $50.
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What led fixtures do you have? (Brand) The original style will or at least should work with most of them. They started installing internal resistors to mimic incandescent bulbs. If your lollipop lights are wired to the turn signals they would do the same thing.
They are trucklite, and they were working with the same setup which makes me think the flasher just might have went bad.
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Yeah just replace the flasher module with a direct replacement. No need to complicate things.
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Yup bad flasher.
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I haven't had a chance to install the Grote flasher unit. I've been too busy trying to get it actually running first since the motor swap. 
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Check the ground before you replace it. Mine did this the other day during a ride. Lights just came on, but didn't flash. I pulled the flasher unit out and cleaned the grounds up and it worked fine after that.
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I am running the standard flasher unit...http://www.eriksmilitarysurplus.com/tusiflcoun11.html...with LEDs all the way around and incandescent lollipops. All works fine. All new flasher units are LED compatible. I agree with the grounds issue...clean 'em up good and use star lock washers on all.
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I also have similar "random" problems since switching to LED front/ rear... works fine with regular bulbs. (good grounds) I dont see how it could be a grounding problem when the only thing that changed was to LED's.. hmmm thinking maybe theres NOT ENOUGH resistance to activate/ function the flasher reliably??? and adding the lolipops gave it enough resistance...
using that line of thought im adding 2 external resistors...
using that line of thought im adding 2 external resistors...
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