Blinker kills engine

 This is driving me nuts. My blinkers work fine with the key on and
engine off. When it's running and I come to a stop sign; put my blinker
on and the engine dies. Starts right back up again. If I put the blinker
on while the engine is still revving before the stop it don't die. Once
in a while it will just die when I'm sitting there idling at the stop
sign with the blinker on. Start right back up again no problem.
In case it matters-Suzuki intruder 1400 1996.

Other than this problem it runs cherry.
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Cockamamie Khomeini

Leader of the known (Islamic) world.

 Cockamamie Khomeini wrote:

PS:  I have a brand new battery (High quality) and a new
regulator/rectifier.


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Cockamamie Khomeini

Leader of the known (Islamic) world.

 Cockamamie Khomeini wrote:

Feel the backside of the ignition switch. If it's getting too hot to touch,
your problem is a bad contact in the switch.

All power to the ignition bus (1) has to come from the battery, through the
ignition switch and back to the fuse box to work the turn signals, instrument
lights, headlights, horn, brake light, tail light, running light, etc.

If the ignition switch gets hot, there is less voltage to operate the
ignition system, so the engine stalls.

Also, feel the fuse panel and all conectors in the wiring harness that you
can get at, especially the alternator connector and the regulator connector(s)

 Mark Hickey wrote:


Possibly. But, it may also be that when electrical load is increased slightly
the alternator rotor's extra torque reaction requires just a tiny bit more
horsepower than the engine is producing at idle speed. So the engine stalls.

Same thing would happen if he turned on the high beam at a stop sign, but he
probably hasn't tried that, so he doesn't complain.

This guy doesn't *want* to turn his idle speed up a little, or richen up the
idle mixture slightly, and get on with his riding, he wants to discuss petty
little problems like this endlessly.

I remember one guy who had a 1980 shovelhead with sticking valves. He took it
to Glendale Harley and they fixed the one sticky valve they found. Then the
other valve started sticking and he complained to everybody about it for 10
years.

But he never took it back to the $tealer$hip to get it fixed and he didn't
know how to fix it himself, so he complained and complained and complained...

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 Albrecht via MotorcycleKB.com wrote:

Turning the high beam on instead of the blinkers seems like a smart test
to me (or maybe it is always on and a test would be to turn it off and
see what happens to the blinkers then)?

It does seem that there are a number of possible reasons for this.
Besides an intermittent short or bare wire that only sometimes rubs
against the frame, I was wondering if maybe the bulbs are of a higher
than stock wattage, not quite too high to blow a fuse. Is that out of
the question?

Also, the charging numbers didn't seem especially low to me.  I don't
have much experience but I've seem similar a number of times.  Are they
really too low?

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