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TimNorwich
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PostPosted: 18:37 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Honda Hornet Flickering Rear Lights Reply with quote
Hi BCF. I’ve recently purchased a 2001 Honda Bornet, it has one of those Powerbronze undertrays fitted with the shotgun LED style lights.

The number plate lights underneath seem to be flickering.

I’ve taken a video if it:

https://youtu.be/PO8nJkYnqwE

Any ideas what this could be?

Thanks in advance!
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PostPosted: 18:54 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's fucked?

Is it a replaceable bulb?
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PostPosted: 19:47 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nah I don’t think so as they’re LED so I presume they’re built in. Hoping it might be a dodgy connection but it’s just strange.
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PostPosted: 20:50 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Poor connection.
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PostPosted: 20:57 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
No discernible pattern, so it's almost certainly a fucky connection, rather than it picking up a signal from somewhere it shouldn't be.
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TimNorwich
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PostPosted: 21:03 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ok cool, is that dodgy connection likely to be where the wires join then? I had a little pull/push about to see but didn’t help. Thanks
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PostPosted: 21:36 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think it's got a dodgy bulb or the LED is actually wanged. It's too, continuous for the connection to be wonky.
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PostPosted: 22:13 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paddy. wrote:
I think it's got a dodgy bulb or the LED is actually wanged. It's too, continuous for the connection to be wonky.


LED's don't flicker like a dodgy bulb does. They work, or they don't, unless you're spectacularly unlucky.

It's a connection or trace that's dicky if it's got a PCB.
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PostPosted: 22:29 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Logic would say that there is 1 feed for the lights. One works. However I've never seen that set up so not a clue.
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PostPosted: 22:47 - 01 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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is that dodgy connection likely to be where the wires join then? I had a little pull/push about to see but didn’t help. Thanks


Eyeballing it usually doesn't help and fiddling with it usually makes it worse or fail completely. Believe me we've all been there. So it's time to start learning, get your voltmeter out and begin by testing circuits, follow the junctions, make sure you get a good healthy beep at each stage. Somewhere along the line you'll learn something and hey-ho you did it yourself!
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PostPosted: 10:09 - 03 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Initially the lights don't flicker when they're first turned on but then they start. Does this make any difference?
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PostPosted: 13:13 - 03 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
TimNorwich wrote:
Initially the lights don't flicker when they're first turned on but then they start. Does this make any difference?


That would indicate something is getting warm and moving, breaking the connection, and then cooling, remaking the connection.

I wouldn't have thought that leds would draw enough to cause that sort of heating and the flickering is very quick for that.
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