Neat accessory

[Steven Bixby]

If you don't want to go through the effort to build your own, there
are a few from this company - I have both a BackOff and a BackOff XP.
 Street price of around $34 and $39, respectively.  Well made units,
sealed, reliable, yadayada.  :)

On 11/29/07, Julian Solomensky <jsolo at solo-tek.com> wrote:
> In my quest to make my tail lights flash, i came across this, http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/flashing3.html .
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> The circuit is an adjustable tail light flasher.  You can adjust how many times and how fast it flashes the brake lights before going steady on.
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> On the concours 14, it's will not actually be flashing the tail light, but rather additional led's mounted in the top trunk (likely these, http://www.lck-led.com/product_info.php/cPath/39_56/products_id/102 ), as can be seen here, ( http://home.comcast.net/~zx1100e5/c14/off.jpg
> http://home.comcast.net/~zx1100e5/c14/on.jpg ) (for the full thread look here, http://concours.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37407)
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> The circuit is relatively cheap ($10 or so in parts from mouser.com), and easy to assemble.
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> I always wanted to add something like this to the gpz, but never got around to it.
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> The output transistor is relatively cheap, and is rated at 65W max, so figure a good 40-50watt usable.  Should be PLENTY of juice to drive many many many led's :).
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