replacement light bulbs
Beings we can no longer purchase regular light bulbs is that going to affect the light bulbs for marker lights and other 12 volt light Moved to Tech Issues forum from DIY.
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Careful wa8yxm with the load simulation resistor or you risk the ire of a respondent on another thread who declares incandescent light bulbs last ten years or 200,000 miles.
JARTRAN an offshoot of James A Ryder truck rentals contracted me to address the issue of them having failing tail lights on their CL and CLT 9000 truck tractors after only one trip on I-80 from Reno NV to Fremont California and back. A single trip. The CHP inspection station in Truckee, CA. was issuing citations by the handful to Jartran. First I tried the ultra-heavy duty 1157 variant (198?) four times as expensive and it lasted two or three trips. A failure. Then I did research and came up with rubber grommets, tensioning springs and stover locknuts with the (198?) lamps. Jartran leased the vehicles and the bank/lessor would not allow fitting TruckLite fixtures to replace the square housings used on the Ford vehicles.
LED lamps when properly chosen are a blessing for anyone interested in preventing stupid-grade automobile accidents. I witnessed a fatal head-on in which a car turned in front of a tank truck. The tank truck driver had witnesses claiming the turning automobile did not signal. Since I was a witness, I was eventually dragged into court. The auto was T-boned killing the driver's wife and two very small children. When the plaintiff demanded a deposition from me I got angry and telephoned the underwriter of the tanker. I asked them to please check the front left turn signal on the automobile.
They got a court order and did it - checked the lamp. Wanna know what they found? A broken and badly corroded bulb and socket.
It is "possible" that HAD THAT GODDAMNED lamp been flashing the truck driver would have had a chance to avoid the accident. It would have spared me 30 years of equally goddamned nightmares about helping to drag 30 pound corpses out the broken back window of that station wagon.
Sorry for the temper tantrum, but yeah I am a safety nut as well as a consumer advocate. Please forgive my weaknesses.
JARTRAN an offshoot of James A Ryder truck rentals contracted me to address the issue of them having failing tail lights on their CL and CLT 9000 truck tractors after only one trip on I-80 from Reno NV to Fremont California and back. A single trip. The CHP inspection station in Truckee, CA. was issuing citations by the handful to Jartran. First I tried the ultra-heavy duty 1157 variant (198?) four times as expensive and it lasted two or three trips. A failure. Then I did research and came up with rubber grommets, tensioning springs and stover locknuts with the (198?) lamps. Jartran leased the vehicles and the bank/lessor would not allow fitting TruckLite fixtures to replace the square housings used on the Ford vehicles.
LED lamps when properly chosen are a blessing for anyone interested in preventing stupid-grade automobile accidents. I witnessed a fatal head-on in which a car turned in front of a tank truck. The tank truck driver had witnesses claiming the turning automobile did not signal. Since I was a witness, I was eventually dragged into court. The auto was T-boned killing the driver's wife and two very small children. When the plaintiff demanded a deposition from me I got angry and telephoned the underwriter of the tanker. I asked them to please check the front left turn signal on the automobile.
They got a court order and did it - checked the lamp. Wanna know what they found? A broken and badly corroded bulb and socket.
It is "possible" that HAD THAT GODDAMNED lamp been flashing the truck driver would have had a chance to avoid the accident. It would have spared me 30 years of equally goddamned nightmares about helping to drag 30 pound corpses out the broken back window of that station wagon.
Sorry for the temper tantrum, but yeah I am a safety nut as well as a consumer advocate. Please forgive my weaknesses.
