Curing LED Turn Signal Conversion Problems
This apparently cures automotive manufacturer's morphidite flasher tantrums that go into Charles Manson mode when a person converts from incandescent to LED turn signals. http://ledguy.net/store/in...
Forum Discussion
Many who 'upgrade" to LED's retrofits in incandescent housings are possibly inviting more issues than just hyper flashing of the signals.
The Incandescent housing are designed around a filament light source and project the light from that to meet all sorts of visibility requirements. Not just from straight behind the vehicle, but from all angles.
We will no doubt get posts by those who installed LED's and say they are brighter and better.
I see LED bulbs all the time retrofitted into incandescent housings. Usually the brake lights are pinkish, blindingly bright or too dim, and there is not enough difference between running lights and brake lights. At angles not directly behind the light might not even be visible at all.
If an accident occurs, and the lawyers get a hold of the fact that LED retrofit bulbs were used inside of incandescent housings, well the lawyers get rich, and most everybody else get's screwed.
The Only advantage I see to using LED bulbs inside incandescent housings is if one abandons the car on the side of the road with the hazard lights flashing for a day or 3.
I do like the instant on and off. I might parallel some red led bulbs inside my housing next to the incandescent just so they illuminate quicker when I step on the brake.
Probably won't make a difference as the person behind me is invariably on looking at their phone more than the road and their surroundings anyway.
And to Those that put HID lights into halogen housings. You are dangerous to yourself and everybody else on the road, and I despise you and your blue light and aim flatulence in your general direction.
The Incandescent housing are designed around a filament light source and project the light from that to meet all sorts of visibility requirements. Not just from straight behind the vehicle, but from all angles.
We will no doubt get posts by those who installed LED's and say they are brighter and better.
I see LED bulbs all the time retrofitted into incandescent housings. Usually the brake lights are pinkish, blindingly bright or too dim, and there is not enough difference between running lights and brake lights. At angles not directly behind the light might not even be visible at all.
If an accident occurs, and the lawyers get a hold of the fact that LED retrofit bulbs were used inside of incandescent housings, well the lawyers get rich, and most everybody else get's screwed.
The Only advantage I see to using LED bulbs inside incandescent housings is if one abandons the car on the side of the road with the hazard lights flashing for a day or 3.
I do like the instant on and off. I might parallel some red led bulbs inside my housing next to the incandescent just so they illuminate quicker when I step on the brake.
Probably won't make a difference as the person behind me is invariably on looking at their phone more than the road and their surroundings anyway.
And to Those that put HID lights into halogen housings. You are dangerous to yourself and everybody else on the road, and I despise you and your blue light and aim flatulence in your general direction.
