Just rding home from work and the indicators dont light at all but the light on the dash flashes - at a much faster flash rate. I see from a previous post that the flasher may be integrated with the instrument cluster which could be a huge problem any ideas out there?
Yes the flasher function is in the dash rather than a conventional external flasher relay, many machines are built this way, the faster flash rate in the dash tells you the dash has detected your operation of the indicator switch but that there is no load to the indicators, ie the wiring to the indicators is open circuit or globes are blown. The increased flash rate of the dash lamp under fault conditions is part of some of the regulations in various countries
Not really, it indicates the switch inputs work, the dash processor is detecting operation and the firmware routine is working but the output IC's to the indicators could have failed. These IC's are usually well protected internally from short circuits etc so I would expect it is more likely an external wiring fault The problem is I have not had a Terra/Strada/Nuda dash on the test bench or high enough resolution pic's to determine the actual IC's used in these dash assemblies as I did for the pre 2010 BMW 650GS dash assemblies to enable owners to do repairs on them. I now know the main processor and ODO storage EEPROM info courtesy of a thread over at Nudaforums, an owner there has done some fine work in resolving an EEPROM corruption causing an EWS error problem but they dont quite understand a few elements of dash/EWS operation or the ICs on the pcb
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Just FYI Wayne & I played with my bike recently by fitting some LED indicators I had taken off another bike. I wanted to test whether I would need a special relay to run them when we realized that the flasher function was done by the dash. LED's from a newer model BMW are plug & play. I can't remember if the flasher flashed quickly when an indicator was diconnected, but I'm a bit retarded and wayne is a geriatric.
Was this still happenning after you turned the bike off and on again? I had a problem recently on one of my bikes (sorry i can't remember if it was the TR650 or my Super Tenere) where the indicators stopped working completely. I turned the key off and on again and it all went back to normal again.
Have you confirmed that the globes/bulbs are OK? Not on my Terra, but I have had similar issues and sworn I had good bulbs, but in the end found a bad one.
No globes were ok, I reckon ill get an auto sparky to have a look and if need be bypass the dash and install an old school flasher
After riding without indicators for a few weeks and saving for a new dash I had another look at a previous post and found a blown fuse it seems the dash is actually fused over 2 7.5 amp fuses Looking at the fuse block while standing on the right side of the bike (front of bike pointing to your right, back of bike to the left) the blinker fuse is the red 7.5A that's in the 3rd row of the 2nd column Very happy little Terra lover today!!
Indicators stopped working again and not the fuse this time. Ive found a creative auto electrician who diagnosed dash as having a problem so he designed a circuit, bunch of wires and relays to bypass the dash flasher. No more problems with flashers, took him an hour He thinks he can probably bypass the EWS in which case Ill get ride of the dash altogether and install a trail tech
