Here's an added twist. I held the flasher in my hand,ran a short hot jumper wire from my battery terminal to 'X' on the flasher; ran a wire to the hot wire on a new socket and bulb to the 'L' terminal and then touched the socket to the ground terminal on the battery.The light lights up but doesn't blink. I even ran a ground wire to the 'P' terminal in another attempt to get something to happen but still nothing. I thought that maybe it was a bad flasher but when I had my friend at the parts store order the flasher he received two and complained that it would sit on the shelf forever, so I bought both. I switched the flasher and....NOTHING!