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Old 12-21-04 | 07:53 PM
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Bikes: Felt F-70, Terry Madeleine, Novara Safari fully customized by me

Question for the electrical whiz-kids. I liked the idea of using a truck LED taillight, so I got one of those and some stick-on amber LED bars (meant to go at the top of a truck cab) on my front fork and I wanted to add a strobe on the trunk for good lateral visibility. At every stage of the build, the strobe worked fine. I've taken it out 2 nights now and I'm very happy with the taillight, front fork lights and horn; but the strobe light now goes on once every 90-120 secs, in otherwords it's useless. Any idea where I screwed up? Not being very good at soldering may be a factor. To simplify wiring I don't have any switches, I just put a 2 socket auto accessory adapter into the Vector 12V battery (it puts another fuse in) and plug in to turn everything on. The wires to the strobe are a lot finer say 20 vs the 16 on the rest of the system. Any suggestions on how to start figuring whats wrong?
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