Re: turn signal

["Shapiro, Mark" <mshapiro@EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU>]

Dear Carl,

This is an indication that you most likely have either a burned out bulb
or a bulb with a burned out filament on the left side of your vehicle.

Another possible, but much less likely problem, is a corroded bulb
socket.

Mark

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-----Original Message-----
From: Forum for Physics Educators [mailto:PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu] On
Behalf Of Carl E. Mungan
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 9:59 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: turn signal

As of this morning, my left turn signal (1996 Toyota RAV4) is
blinking about twice as fast as normal, about double the rate of the
right turn signal. I've checked again just now after the car was idle
a few hours and it's still doing it. Ambient temperatures and
humidity have been pretty normal for the past day.

So my questions are:
1. Is it a bad resistor, capacitor, chip, or what that might be doing
this and any guesses about what might have caused it?
2. Is it something to worry about or, as long as I don't mind a
double-speed blink, can I just ignore it?

Thanks for any insights and I'd be happy to poke around under the
hood with a multimeter if someone gave me a hint about what to try.
Carl
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