Today on the way home from work, while squinting to see in the gusty dusty storm wind, I could still tell that sometimes the turn signals were ceasing after a few blinks. Didn't matter if it was left or right, or when I was stopped vs moving (bumpy road vibration).
After I got home I hobbled around the trike to watch all the lights while running the blinkers (having to turn them off and back on repeatedly to restart them), and found that the left rear main hand-sized signal and the strip on the top cargo frame weren't working at all, but the vertical strip glued to the back of the cargo area was. Poking at the wiring inside the cargo area I found a spot that would make them all work when touched right, so that was the first thing to fix...but it didn't have anything to do with the other problem, unfortunatley.
That turned out after an hour of testing to be the blinker unit itself, which is inside the "front triangle" above the pedals. It might be a bad relay in it, or it might be the electronics (it's one of those LED-compatible electronic ones, a Novita EP35 like this: https://www.autozone.com/electrical...ID=120054150001289080&CADevice=c&gad_source=1
I thought I had bought one to use on the Cloudwalker Cargo Bike (that hasn't been started yet) but it's not in the parts box for that project, so I guess not. So since my brother has never used the trike I built for him (rode it once), I took the one off of that (which originally came from CrazyBike2) until I can order a new one for SBC, and that fixed the problem.
So another couple of hours of time and energy (that I didn't have to spare right now) used up.
The wheels and motors and controllers are still working the same, so that's good...but this coming weekend will have to be spent rebuilding the dropouts on the left side to properly secure the axle, instead of the growing amount of yard work and other stuff I still have to get done. (and the rest I won't get either, that I desperately need)
After I got home I hobbled around the trike to watch all the lights while running the blinkers (having to turn them off and back on repeatedly to restart them), and found that the left rear main hand-sized signal and the strip on the top cargo frame weren't working at all, but the vertical strip glued to the back of the cargo area was. Poking at the wiring inside the cargo area I found a spot that would make them all work when touched right, so that was the first thing to fix...but it didn't have anything to do with the other problem, unfortunatley.
That turned out after an hour of testing to be the blinker unit itself, which is inside the "front triangle" above the pedals. It might be a bad relay in it, or it might be the electronics (it's one of those LED-compatible electronic ones, a Novita EP35 like this: https://www.autozone.com/electrical...ID=120054150001289080&CADevice=c&gad_source=1
I thought I had bought one to use on the Cloudwalker Cargo Bike (that hasn't been started yet) but it's not in the parts box for that project, so I guess not. So since my brother has never used the trike I built for him (rode it once), I took the one off of that (which originally came from CrazyBike2) until I can order a new one for SBC, and that fixed the problem.
So another couple of hours of time and energy (that I didn't have to spare right now) used up.
The wheels and motors and controllers are still working the same, so that's good...but this coming weekend will have to be spent rebuilding the dropouts on the left side to properly secure the axle, instead of the growing amount of yard work and other stuff I still have to get done. (and the rest I won't get either, that I desperately need)