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Old 07-16-2016, 06:41 PM
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Default New Custom Dynamics LED turn signals...one side works, one doesn't.

My '96 Dyna came with stock headlight, cateye taillight, and two tiny incandescent turn signals front and rear. The fronts were burned out so I only had the rears. They used a load equalizer and even with only the rears working, they flashed normally.

I have since replaced everything with a BAL taillight, stock style bullet rear turn signals with CD run/stop/turn LED inserts, HD Daymaker headlight and CD driving/turn combo lights. When I mocked everything up, it worked fine. After install, the right side turn signals do not work. I had been running just the rears for a while, which worked fine, now, nothing. I cut the wire to the front turn signal, but it's still dead.

I hate to just drop $85 on a new load equalizer just to see if that's it, and it seems odd that the left side still works. Any thoughts? The right turn signal button DOES work.
 
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Unlike regular bulbs LED's are positive and negative specific, make sure you have the correct leads going to the correct polarity.
 
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Good suggestion. I checked it and it's right. They make it easy at least; black ground, yellow turn, white constant.
 
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It's a Badlands load equalizer, figured out, but it's not the problem. There doesn't seem to be any power going to that side turn signal, traced back to the plug near the battery. Is there a fuse? I only see circuit breakers.
 
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Well, here's what I figured out: With the rear fender wiring harness plug plugged in, it kills the right side turn signal circuit, so I think there's a problem with that wiring. I've been meaning to redo the wiring under the fender for a few months now, so I bit the bullet and pulled it all apart. I'll create a new harness and hopefully that will fix everything.
 
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