turn signal relay location???  By  waltuo (Read 8,995 times)

You have a VIP, T3, or ATM50?

My turn signals also stopped working. I guess it's the weakness of TaoTao's.
I'm at ~4000-4500km's right now. After a heavy downpour they stopped working.
I think it's either a loose cable, or the relay unit.

Also my horn works intermittent; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Have to open the thing to take a look at it some day...

it's attached to the front fork, like underneath the headlight area. You have to remove the front body panel that is black / unpainted. The silver box with fins on it is the voltage regulator, don't mess with that, the turn signal relay is a little black cylinder with 3 wires.

It looks like an old film canister with wires coming out of it.

Usually under the front section where the horn is.

I bought a used scooter once that the signals didn't work.
I messed around with them and couldn't find anything wrong with the wiring.
I even took off the relay and hard wired them and I was able to get them to come on, so it had to be the relay.
Since I was getting a new one any way, I popped the broken one open.
All it is, is a transistor and capacitor, charge and discharge circuit.
I recognized the circuit easily. It's how you make lights blink.
Yet as I study it, I realize that it could have never have worked.
The ground was not even connected to anything.
I pulled out the multimeter and tested it. Nope. The ground was not connected to the circuit.
So that means the person I bought this scooter from never had working signals.
It was a fault out of the factory. Why would they not fix it?
That's what made me retest it, but there is no way those signals worked ever with that relay.

Any way, the moral of the story is that I bought a new one and everything worked perfect, and that brand new ones straight from the factory floor can be faulty.

They just slap them together.

I know basic electronics. I can make a transistor/capacitor circuit. I thought about making a cool one that can maybe do patterns or something and selling them.
We'll see.