hey people,

 

am in the middle of a little project with my front indicators. i am going to change them to led's, (having fitment probs with my smic's) and i think i need some sort of unit/converter to stop the indicator flashing too fast (like when you have a bulb out).

anyone know what the litlle gizmo thing i need is?

 

al.

I have LED side lights i did myself. If you pre wired LED's they usally have resistors on them. they are fine... I have had then on my Zed for ages with no probs at all....

 

Not sure what the resistor values are but i got them from ebay about a five for 20.

 

HTH

resistors!! thats the ones matey.

 

i will check with my lecky friend 2morrow as to what value i need.

 

cheers

 

al.

I did my headlamps too. Indicators are slightly different. You see when you are using normal bulbs/lamps they draw on the feed and if one of the bulbs fails then the others in that circuit flash faster as a result. If you use LED's then becuase of the lack of power needed for the LED's the others flash faster as if there was a bulbs out. To overcome this the cheap and easy way is to have a bulb still left in circuit ie inline and out of sight maybe under the bonett.

 

I hope that all makes sense?

Basically a row of LED's will not consume the same power as a bulb? :cool:

 

I have lots of resistors that you need and if you wish I will send you a few.

 

NOTE: If you use a resistor at the feed end before the first LED you could wire the others in parallel and that will do keeping the number of resistors down. Otherwise then you will need to fit a resistor to each LED. If you need here is a basic diagram.

 

Edited February 7, 200916 yr by viniboy

You see when you are using normal bulbs/lamps they draw on the feed and if one of the bulbs fails then the others in that circuit flash faster as a result. If you use LED's then becuase of the lack of power needed for the LED's the others flash faster as if there was a bulbs out. To overcome this the cheap and easy way is to have a bulb still left in circuit ie inline and out of sight maybe under the bonett.

 

 

I have never had a prob with this......

 

I have LED repearters. and have never had them flash faster because of this... could this be because i have resistors fitted to each LED?? (they came pre wired and im lazy lol)

 

Cheerz

I have never had a prob with this......

 

I have LED repearters. and have never had them flash faster because of this... could this be because i have resistors fitted to each LED?? (they came pre wired and im lazy lol)

 

Cheerz

 

Not exactly sure about that but I think the side repeaters dont interfere with the circuit like one of the major bulbs. I could be wrong bud. If you take a repeater bulb out do the remainder flash faster? If not thats why???:D

Pics or video please it would be good to see what they look like with LED's

An led does not require as much current as a filament bulb, therefore will flash faster when replaced with leds due to the voltage given out from the flasher unit. You need a higher powered resistor in the feed line to increase the load, it acts as a choke, i have them on my rear led light set up, i cant remember the value off hand but will have a look tomorrow in daylight to check.

I've got them on mine. Can't remember what the value is but it's pretty low and has to be very high power to deal with the big currents that will be passing through it. The resistors need to be wired in parallel with the LED's indicators.

 

If you get them from this lot http://www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/ then you get the resistors with the bulbs.

 

Dave

When i had my led bulb replacements they were excellent but had to replace the flasher relay with a third party one. It wasn't a straight fit but all i had to do was pull the third connector out of the plastic plug, flip the relay the other way round and then connect the third leg in situe.

 

Only thing i never got chance to do was wire up a buzzer to replace the clicking that you didn't get with the electric relay.

I have heard of people wiring a bulb in the circuit out of sight that way the flash remains at the same rate and the audible click is still heard.

my avionic engineer mates at work have advised me the same answer jimmer, and its the cheapest way to correct the flash.

 

al.

my avionic engineer mates at work have advised me the same answer jimmer, and its the cheapest way to correct the flash.

 

al.

But doesn't this defeat the whole object of fitting LEDs? If a bulb blows you still have to change it. I think putting a low value, high-power resistor across the feed would be the better option.