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Old 03-13-2004 | 05:46 PM
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Led lights problem
I just put some super white leds in my rear turn signals and they look sweet. But now they blink really fast (rear and front turn signals), what's with that?
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Old 03-13-2004 | 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by XaMMax
I just put some super white leds in my rear turn signals and they look sweet. But now they blink really fast (rear and front turn signals), what's with that?
I am not really sure of a reason in terms of car electrics, but you need to add 6kOhm resistor paralel to make them blink at standard rate.

edit: 6 Ohm, not 6 kOhm, well just as link below says....
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Old 03-13-2004 | 08:08 PM
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http://autolumination.com/equalizers.htm
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Old 03-13-2004 | 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by geo1317
Thanks George, I thought of you right away when saw this question.
LED blinkers turned out to be superb, love them, btw...
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Old 03-13-2004 | 11:18 PM
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The reason? The LED's consume much less power than a standard light bulb
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Old 03-14-2004 | 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Vlad
Thanks George, I thought of you right away when saw this question.
LED blinkers turned out to be superb, love them, btw...

nice, im glad you found the write up usefull.
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Old 03-15-2004 | 12:42 AM
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Thx guys but will putting the resistors on the rear also fix the front signals as I'm planning on getting led's for the front too.
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Old 03-15-2004 | 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by XaMMax
Thx guys but will putting the resistors on the rear also fix the front signals as I'm planning on getting led's for the front too.
no, you need one for every LED bulb...
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