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So far I am very impressed, and for half the price the inferior bulbs were in the past. The big question is- will they last? That is hard to say right now.
Bad news- I noticed the right bulb was partially flickering. I looked closely and can see there are several LEDs in the bulb that are flickering occasionally, randomly, like there is a bad connection on the board.
5 months is not a very good life at all (not even a hundred hours?) Granted, mine are on the ENTIRE time the bike is on, since they are running lights, but still..... I ran the super-hot stock incandescent bulbs all the time too, for YEARS AND YEARS, an neither burned out.
Update- It has been 4 months and no other bulb problems. A week after writing the above, I ordered another set to have a few spares. Yesterday I finally got around to swapping out the defective/flickering bulb with a new one. I wrote JDM/Astar asking if they will send a replacement.
And a few days later they wrote back saying they will send me a replacement, and without my paying to ship the defective bulb back to them. Two days later and I have it in my hand! So that is customer service. +1 to ADM/Astar! https://www.jdmastar.com
I have a feeling the replacement bulbs will do no better, failing after 5 to 12 months. I guess time will tell.
Is there a better explanation as to why bike goes haywire with this 2-wire led blinker? I saw where someone took apart a different 2-wire flasher and drew a circuit. It looked like it did have a diode built in. The mosfet also has a built in diode in the opposite direction. Obviously there is back EMF from somewhere, but it seems like switching off a led wouldn't cause it. I thought usually this happens when switching inductive loads.
It does look like there is a 3-wire led blinker that could work. These supposedly have the advantage of starting with led on and the 2-wire starts with it off. The 2-wire is much more common though.
"starting with the led on" means that when you press the turn signal button the light comes on right away and then it blinks off and continues to flash. [...] I read somewhere that the 2-wire flashers typically start in the off portion of the cycle so there is a delay period before the light comes on. I don't know if this is actually the case or not. I ordered the 2-wire flasher. I might order the other flasher I saw with three wires.
I thought the original flasher is solid state,
but maybe it is the old style. I thought all led flashers would be solid state, but I don't know.
The one I ordered is what I think is the really common one that is shaped more like a box. I don't know if it will have a delay or not. It looks like the one that needs the diode fix. That would be ok, but I sort of want to get one that just plugs in.