Brake,tail and signal light conversion to LED

wmoses wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:
There is really no good reason to change from the factory incadescent bulb to a LED other than wasting your money AND you will have to defeat a safety item to do that anyways (LEDS DO FAIL, if you don't believe me I HAVE a failed set of $60 Bargman trailer tail lights laying around).

Maybe he likes the instant-on /-off responsiveness of LEDs ... I do. That and the fact that the Bergman assemblies are more monsoon-resistant than the sometimes El cheapo lens assemblies that come with some trailers, and which allow water ingress which then shatters incandescent bulbs and you have no clue but keep driving for 3 hours in the driving rain ... don't ask me how I know.

The Bargmans (and other LED modules)are not "repairable" either and at nearly $60 for ONE module is not a cheap fix.

Not to mention you CAN NOT pickup a new Bargman module at your local Walmart, Dollar General and so on. Therefore it is WISE to BUY AN EXTRA module so you can replace it WHEN it fails while you are thousands of miles from home..

So far I have had TWO Bargman modules QUIT, one the brake/turn quit and the other the "marker" quit. $120 worth of no functioning junk.

Don't go there about "lifetime" warranty.. The shipping cost alone now days will easily set you back $20 or more, then you WAIT, WAIT, WAIT and WAIT some more. And while you are waiting what do you do with no module?

This spring as I mentioned in another post I had a TOP LED marker quit the same day as my annual PA safety inspection. Fortunately those markers are not sealed (the LED cluster inside is "potted" but the lens can be removed) and I was able to substitute another LED cluster.

Just got back from a 1600 mile trip and now I have ANOTHER MARKER OUT!

These LED things as designed and sold are not dependable.. I am now going to RETROFIT ALL the markers with the modules I bought which I WILL be dimming down and INCREASING the life of those modules with a resistor.