Which resistance do I need to remove a turn signal?

[amgarrety]

So, with my D-type lights, I plan to switch to LED city lights here shortly. The problem is that the city light acts as a second turn signal here in the US (due to the US wiring). Hyper flash would be a problem as a result of the lower voltage needed, but instead of fixing that, I would rather stop the city light from blinking all together. It didn't do that in Japan, and I kind of like it better that way. So I'm sure all I need is to put a resistor in the way of the wire that causes the flashing in order to solve my problem, but I don't know what resistance I need.

Does anyone have an answer to this?

[Wiscon_Mark]

Take the resistance of the bulb with an ohm meter and put the equivalent resistor in there? Anyone is free to correct me, but this seems the correct course of action.

[dodik]

or just get a no load flasher from autozone, same applies to bikes.

[amgarrety]

Take the resistance of the bulb with an ohm meter and put the equivalent resistor in there? Anyone is free to correct me, but this seems the correct course of action.

That's what I though as well, but I wanted to make sure my logic was correct before I relied on it alone.


or just get a no load flasher from autozone, same applies to bikes.

I guess that would work. I don't know why I assume it would be different. They both run on 12 volt so I guess that should work fine. We'll give that a try. Thanks!

[rkrenicki]

It would be a fairly low resistance, but high wattage. Something along the lines of 2 ohms at 25W or more.

There are retail products that are heatsinked resistors for this, but switching out to a non-electromechanical flasher would probably be easier and cheaper in the long run.