FZR400RR 3TJ BLOWN INDICATOR RELAY - AGAIN !

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FZR400RR 3TJ BLOWN INDICATOR RELAY - AGAIN !

Post by 400SUPERBIKE » Sun May 22, 2011 10:27 pm

CAN ANYONE POINT ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AS TO WHY I HAVE BLOWN A SECOND INDICATOR RELAY IN AS MANY WEEKS ? ARE THEY MEANT TO " CLICK " QUITE LOUDLY ? BIKE RUNS FINE , INDICATORS WORK FINE THEN NOTHING - FUSES AREN`T EVEN BLOWING ? IS THIS A REGULATOR / RECTIFIER ISSUE ? ALL HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED - ELECTRICS IS A TABOO SUBJECT HERE !

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Re: FZR400RR 3TJ BLOWN INDICATOR RELAY - AGAIN !

Post by Evilchicken0 » Mon May 23, 2011 9:54 am

You might have just fitted a sub standard flasher relay. Are you running aftermarket indicators ? sometimes they have a different resistance to the originals which causes the relay to flash flaster I don't think it would matter to the life of the relay though.
Doesn't sound like a reg rec because the voltage through the system would vary, that would blow fuses, bulbs etc.

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Re: FZR400RR 3TJ BLOWN INDICATOR RELAY - AGAIN !

Post by Hogdigerdy Dog » Wed May 25, 2011 1:00 pm

if you do have replacement indicators they may well be a higher wattage than the standard fellows which are 12V-21W but remember it's times 4
so if you had, say, 12V-25W replacement lamps that's 4W times 4 = 16W more load i'm not sure but it may be enough to blow the flasher unit,

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