LED turn signals and ISSUES
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LED turn signals and ISSUES
After I had installed two LED bulbs in my front turn signals, the relays inside the car are working twice as fast. They seem like they are indicating that a bulb is out. Now the only logical thing that I can think of is that a normal turn signal bulb (3156/3157) puts out a wattage of 15watts; I believe. The new LED lights puts out about 0.5watts I think. So possibly it is tricking the system thinking that the bulbs are nearly dead or even out. What are your opinions?
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You're dead on with your thoughts...the LED's don't draw near the resistance and amps of normal bulbs, so the flasher runs faster. There's a resistor you can wire in line with the LED to bring everything back to normal. Just search the various LED suppliers and the resistor is usually listed too.
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I need two sets of resistors and they are 9 bucks a pop. The reason why I got these in the first place was because the clear bulbs made my headlight assembly look much better/cleaner during day time. At night time, they are constantly on with the headlights. Since I have bright white HID's I wanted to match the headlights and therefore I got something as close as HID's and got LEDs. My only reason why I want to deal with this is because of the annoying clickling. Performance wise, I love it. It looks awesome. But perhaps I can deal with the extrememly fast clicking noise.
P.s. Did you guys have to remove the whole headlight assembly to replace headlight bulbs/turnsignal bulbs?
P.s. Did you guys have to remove the whole headlight assembly to replace headlight bulbs/turnsignal bulbs?
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I think, either in the stylins catalog or moss catalog they sell aturn signal bulb that is clear for looks and turns yellow for turnig.
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