Curing LED Turn Signal Conversion Problems

I tried an 1156 Cree LED in my reverse lights, and they were not visible to other drivers at any angle but directly behind in daytime. Obviously results will be different in different vehicles.


I do have some non flashing side marker lights that call for 194 incandescent bulbs with the t10 wedge base. I happen to have a bunch of LEDs that take this same base for my interior lights, so I tried some in these housings. The brightest LED's I had were too bright and too pink. I tried dimmest RED colored LED bulb in this light is perfect in intensity and fills out the reflector well from all angles, and the light is red, not pink.





So get the LED's the same color as the reflector housing. Makes a big difference in light color and the amount of light filtered out by the lens.

In that photo, the brightest blue white LED was only about 25% brighter than the red led when inside the red colored housing, but is about 90% brighter when unfiltered.

The two Red led's account for almost a 1 amp savings over the 194's IIRC.

Higher voltages then make it to my other incandescent signal bulbs, which is also increased since I removed the headlight current from my headlight switch.

My Vehicle might be old enough to drink, but my lighting, interior and exterior, is as good or better than stock.

HID conversions Landyacht? Shirley You Jest!!!
One pink and one green dazzling headlight is well hell it is culturally aesthetic.

Exactly like the PREVENTION of operating with an "unknown" burned out bulb, obtaining the required results is strictly up to the owner.

I have followed many 2010-2014 cars that have factory LED lights so bright their freakin' stoplights are brighter than my headlights. HID headlight regulations are wacko as well -- right from the factory. Some are intelligent design, others are so stupid they blind oncoming drivers on the opposite side of a divided highway ON LOW BEAM.

I seem to prefer to use my intelligence when choosing which light is appropriate as a replacement lamp for my vehicles. My toad has terrible side visibility at night. I intend to correct it.

Course I could buy a new Lexus or Infinity and automatically get my very own "Mother Fletcher's Do-It-Yourself Star Wars Laser defense kit".

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.

AMEN

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.