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
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE TIME...
Change all 4 turn signal lamps. How many AMPS does that save? Or better yet allow me to get snotty - how many watt minutes would that save in 10 years?
Comparing the longevity between LED and incandescent are we?
A BURNED OUT incandescent bulb can cost an accident, your life, everything you own, etc...
Do we feel that hand smacking our forehead?
This is a kit, it comes with lots and lots of instructions. Of course if the kit is the price of a double-burger different than say a metalized load resistor than the kit is a major faux paus.
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If you add in the wattage used by the load resistors you save NOTHING.
That's right NOTHING since the load resistor has to "simulate" the current draw of TWO incadescent bulbs :S
In the end, you pay more for LEDs then pay more for load resistors to "fix" the hyper flash and you gain NOTHING other than emptying your wallet...
Proper incadescent turn signal bulbs cost about $1 each but yet with LEDs you will spend $10 or more each and get less effective signals since the fixtures are not designed for LEDS :h plus you spend extra for a load resistor and by pass a safety feature..
Then there is the life of the bulbs, I have a 10 year old truck with 200,000 miles on the clock with the ORIGINAL turn signal bulbs :B
Most folks will never ever need to replace incadescent turn signal bulbs if they trade their vehicle every 10 years.. (last time I replaced one was a vehicle which was 15 years old) so I see no "advantage" to putting LEDs into vehicles which were never designed for them..
