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Posted by greenbarn
- January 10, 2015, 08:56:19 AMQuote from: CDNRatMan on January 09, 2015, 09:23:16 AMThen in 30 (or so) more days, you'll be DONE with work, DONE with your projects, SNOWED IN, and NOTHING TO DO. So I suggest you travel to Sunny Warm OHIO for a "VACATION" for a week or two. I'll put you up in the plush Greenbarn Resort and you can spend your days relaxing, and cleaning and detailing 2 more Drifters...Only 2 projects left to do over the winter now, and one is awaiting for parts, and the other till Mar, because the bike needs to be outside for that.....
So time to clean and detail the parts.......
I'll even feed you... 
Average Temperatures are about 40 DEGREES warmer ( that's -30 (C) to +10 (F) 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 09, 2015, 09:23:16 AM 
Thank you Sir.
I have gone ahead with my mod and it is now finished, I have rear marker lights and signal lights and thanks to really Troll, GB and 49, who I had pestered with a few pm's I got it working and the bike has not caught fire, I have not blown any fuses, so all is right and all is good now.
That is what makes this place such a cool place to be a member of, people helping you even with the "dumb" questions, but how do we learn.
Only 2 projects left to do over the winter now, and one is awaiting for parts, and the other till Mar, because the bike needs to be outside for that.....
So time to clean and detail the parts.......
Posted by gdrudd13
- January 09, 2015, 09:13:52 AMFinally got my bike back with a new front tire. As a side note, 32°F (0°C) is way too cold to be riding a motorcycle, especially when the sun goes down and without full fairings. That was a really cold ride on the highway. But now that it is back, I checked the tail light, and sure enough, with the bike off the plate light does pulse with the turn signal flashing. It's not a lot, but if you look it is noticeable. I didn't notice the actual tail light fluctuating though. I do think that it is more noticeable with an LED tail light/plate light just because it is so much brighter than what was on there before. I am also still running the stock turn signals, the only LED's are the tail light assembly.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 06, 2015, 09:41:00 AMyour correct John and it is not enough to look or make a person think it is an indicator, in fact I will be most people do not even see it. I saw it because I was working on the lights and was interested in what was going on. At first I thought it was because I had been looking at the signal lights flashing without the lens covers. As of now i am not going to worry about it.
I did trace all the wires back from the major connectors to the flasher unit and looked for broken or wron wire, I also moved and flexed the wires to see if there was an internal broken wire. Some one suggested a new flasher unit, or a digital one, but at this point I am going to wait till Spring and once the bike is outside start it and see if it is still there. Thanks.
Posted by John Hopkins
- January 06, 2015, 09:31:20 AMJust a quick thing from me..
When you switch the indicator on the rear light pulses in time with the indicator.. If I understand you correctly it actually brightens at the time when the indicator is off ie: in between indicator flashes and when the indicators are not drawing current.. Is the rear light flash enough to be mistaken for an indicator, if not I wouldn't worry too much..
You say you checked all the wiring, a poor ground wire could cause this type of thing but it could be at the flasher unit, did you check there..
John.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 05, 2015, 23:03:29 PMYes at -40 it is the same, and we do not ride our wheeled Drifters then we ride our track Drifters in that weather.
I will wait to see what happens when you try your bike if the results are the same as everyone else.
Posted by greenbarn
- January 05, 2015, 21:57:30 PMWe are under a "Winter weather advisory". Supposed to get 1-3, 2-4, or 3-6 inches, depending on which weather liar you listen to. I remember when we would be supposed to get 3-6" and the forecast would just be "There is a chance of snow - 3-6" possible".... NOW, it's a "WEATHER ADVISORY".
However, it is supposed to be really cold, though (for here). Dipping below 0 F for several nights in a row this week, and probably won't see above 20 until the weekend. Like gdrudd13 said, it wouldn't be too bad, except for the wind. It's been blowing pretty hard.....
Posted by gdrudd13
- January 05, 2015, 20:25:46 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on January 05, 2015, 17:12:23 PMI'll take a look at it once I get it back. I'm even more curious now.I would appreciated you letting us know because so far it seems to be in all the bikes, if they are not running, just turn the key on and then turn on a signal light and watch your plate light. Thanks
The -35*C was at 0730 when I went out to start the truck. But it has warmed up some since then, for your scale at present it is -10*F but the winds from the west at 5 mph and the temps feel like -21*F. I have about 6 kids in the block outside playing street hockey right now, who will be going inside before the Russian Canada game at 2000.
What tire are you putting on the front?
I put a Michelin Commander II tire on the back and was waiting for the matching front to come back in stock, so I'll have a Commander II up there. I didn't get to ride much with the new rear, but the little I did do was great.
Saturday morning the windchill was pretty far into the negative here too. It was blowing like 20ish, gusting to 30ish if I remember correctly. Temp was around 14° or so without the wind. Temperature wouldn't have been bad, but it's almost always windy here. Makes it pretty brutal.
Posted by greenbarn
- January 05, 2015, 19:50:34 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on January 05, 2015, 17:12:23 PMThe -35*C was at 0730 when I went out to start the truck. But it has warmed up some since then, for your scale at present it is -10*F but the winds from the west at 5 mph and the temps feel like -21*F. I have about 6 kids in the block outside playing street hockey right now, who will be going inside before the Russian Canada game at 2000.
-35*C, now that's pretty cold... Now, When it gets down to -40*C... I guess it's all the same at that point, eh? 
(-40C = -40F)
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 05, 2015, 17:12:23 PMI would appreciated you letting us know because so far it seems to be in all the bikes, if they are not running, just turn the key on and then turn on a signal light and watch your plate light. Thanks
The -35*C was at 0730 when I went out to start the truck. But it has warmed up some since then, for your scale at present it is -10*F but the winds from the west at 5 mph and the temps feel like -21*F. I have about 6 kids in the block outside playing street hockey right now, who will be going inside before the Russian Canada game at 2000.
What tire are you putting on the front?
Posted by gdrudd13
- January 05, 2015, 16:02:50 PMI know at idle my tail light brightness fluctuates some anyways. Never paid attention to it with the turn signals on. I'd go look since I'm curious now, but the bike shop finally got in my front tire so it's there having it put on.
-35°C? That's pretty impressive. Is that a high temperature for the day or a low at night?
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 05, 2015, 10:36:54 AMDon't know and will not till spring because the bike is in the house. Now someone who has theirs in a garage or it is not -35*C outside can check that . And please don't tell me to move south.
Posted by pcarrell
- January 05, 2015, 08:28:33 AMI noticed that this test was done with the bike not running. As you only have battery power on it, it makes sense that it might pulse as you only have a finite amount of power to work with. Does it still do it with the bike running and the stator supplying power?
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 04, 2015, 22:10:49 PM Yes it was more noticeable because the LED light was brighter, and therefore it was more noticeable.....but that being said it is still a very faint pulse, but enough to see if you look for it.
Posted by greenbarn
- January 04, 2015, 21:10:34 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on January 04, 2015, 17:53:50 PMYou mean b/c the LED is brighter, right??... it was just that the LED bulb let me see it, never noticed it before.