Trying to find new flasher to accomodate LED bulbs
I took out the orange lenses in my taillights and replaced the clear bulbs with red LED bulbs and it caused my turn signals to flash very fast. I've been told it's because the LED bulbs use less power and it causes our stock "thermal flasher" to blink at a quicker pace. I'm trying to find an "electronic flasher" that will blink at a steady pace no matter how much power is being drawn from it. I've looked at every part store in town and I even talked to a specialty electronic store to see if they could help me out. If anyone has run into this problem too any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
Unfortunately this will just cause it to draw as much power as the original bulbs did anyway.
I don't think they make a replacement application for our stock flasher unit. There was a dude on s2ki.com who hacked his stock flasher up and replaced the stock shunt with a resistor.
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Maybe neither, because seeing a tiny "dot" flashing in the bigass turnsignal doesn't look very appealing to me.
Plug and play LED turn signal bulbs = teh lose
sorry jon i refuse to believe this
they do sell leds which has the lights on its sides. this wont eliminate the effect of that bright spot, but does provide a enought light through out the whole signal bar. i have one. and it works in the day time too(meaning you can really see all of it in daylight but it is certainly not as well lit as the stock). and to solve your hyper flash problem you'll need a load resister.
sorry jon i refuse to believe this
they do sell leds which has the lights on its sides. this wont eliminate the effect of that bright spot, but does provide a enought light through out the whole signal bar. i have one. and it works in the day time too(meaning you can really see all of it in daylight but it is certainly not as well lit as the stock). and to solve your hyper flash problem you'll need a load resister.
I remember seeing those types of bulbs, but they I also recall them being sold for $30 a piece. Just didn't seem worth it to me at all And like you said, "but it is certainly not as well lit as the stock"
Of course it will get you the pure led red color where a normal bulb would give you a pink output.
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I remember seeing those types of bulbs, but they I also recall them being sold for $30 a piece. Just didn't seem worth it to me at all And like you said, "but it is certainly not as well lit as the stock"
Of course it will get you the pure led red color where a normal bulb would give you a pink output.
they are around $10. this is a fairly cheap solution for people for cleared out there tail lights.
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freaken Tein S techs and KYBs why does my rear have to be lower than the front.
and if you can't find the electronic flasher in your area then thats just some pathetic auto stores. Trucks use these all the time for upgrades/ trailers/temp fixes, like 15 bucks.
Of course you would have to hack up your stock connector under dash to use it, not plug and play for our cars.
Alright guys lemme throw this one at you, I'm already well aware of the Hyper-flash, I have the in-line load resistors, but I have the LED switchbacks which double as parking lights (White LEDs) and turn signals (Amber LEDs) I figured I would be okay to splice the power from the running lights to light the White LEDs then when I hit the turn signal the extra power would kick them into Amber mode. Nope. The turn signal is just fine, no Hyper-flash, but the parking lights now function as turn signals as well as when I turn on my parking lights, or even headlights the turn signals don't work they're functioning as parking lights stuck in Amber mode. Is there a load resistor that I can put between the turn signals and the parking light's I'm splicing from and stop the backflow of power of the turn signals to the parking lights (stop the parking lights from becoming turn signals)? I'm going to tamper around till I get it right but I thought I'd see if you guys can't help me solve my problem, feel free to email, or PM me!
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And like you said, "but it is certainly not as well lit as the stock"
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