Flasher cancelling unit

[cywelchjr]

I might argue that one with you, as I recall the one I had contained a relay, what looked like a capacitor and some other 'stuff', but no bi-metal strip. But that's neither here nor there...

If you can come up with a way to build a flasher that will flash 'other' loads and retain the cancelling, it'd be great...

This is not building a flasher, this is adding a relay to the circuit to make a normal automotive flasher work with the auto cancel unit.

You can argue the point about the 3 prong automotive flashers till you blue in the face, the proof is they don't work with the auto cancel unit. That is PROOF they are not the same. I have not found one yet where the third leg was a disable like the Yamaha flasher's third leg is. Yes, that is what the schematic shows, that third leg is a disable signal, which is all that the cancel unit does, send a 12v signal telling the flasher to stop. The relay shown in the circuit (as an alternate to the transistor and two resistors) reacts to that signal and opens the circuit stopping the signals.

The Yamaha flasher is actually functionally simpler than I had thought, it's really a two prong flasher with a disable pin. ELDR is making a unit to replace the entire unit, I'm thinking of a tech tip about how to mod the bike to use a normal 2 prong flasher and still retain the auto cancel, and yes, it's base on his schematic. I would have tried to figure this out, but I no longer had a stock flasher for either of my bikes, and I wasn't going to buy another one, but I'll buy a relay and put it in the circuit, like I said, I can see exactly how it would work.