Like the title says I installed some LEDs for my brake lights with resistors. The resistors fixed the hyper blink but took away the parking light function. Any suggestions on why or how to fix that? I used the resistors from HERE. Do I need to use these HERE instead?
I'm not sure what to tell you , but this is the 1st time I've heard of this happening . I have those Tail light load resistors with my led tail light bulbs and still have all the other lights . So is it possible that you accidentally blown a fuse for your parking lights ? If all those check out good , what about the problem in the top with the hatch wiring ? I'm tossing out ideas for you to check .
I still have the front parking lights but the rear LED bulbs loose their parking light function when the resistors are installed. If I remove them they work fine, but they have the hyperblinking going on.
I'm pretty much done with trying the switch to LEDs. I was hoping to free up a little more powah [strongman] for when I go WOT since the alternator shuts off and I drive mostly at night. But having to resistors in with them kind of defeats that purpose. I'll probably just leave all the lights alone except the ones on the inside [dunno]
I bought these HERE. They have LED's on the back side so as to reflect against the brake light housing. They work fine with out the resistors installed but when I put the resistors on they don't have the parking light function like they do with out them.
I'm kind of thinking since they have small capacitors that maybe I should step down a to the smaller load resistors. I'm thinking that it's killing too much power and that's why I loose the parking light function?
The blubs work fine without the resistors. I'm thinking since they have small capacitors on them make the resistors too strong. I'm not 100% on that though, it very well could be the bulbs.
ok so now I'm looking at other load resistors and the cheap bastard in me is price shopping and I'm finding a few different ohm'ed resistors. I'm looking for a 25w which would be half of the one I got now but the one on Superbrightled.com is 25 ohm 25 watt. Wouldn't that be even more resistance being 25 ohm compared to the 50 watt 6 ohm one's I have now? Found on ebay 25 watt 6 ohm resistors. Which ones should I try?
The watt rating of the resistor is the size, the bigger the number the bigger the size and the more heat it can dissipate. The 50w size is marketed for the turn signals. The 25w 6ohms are the same ones you have now, except they're smaller...
The 25 ohms has more resistance; the lowest load resistor I've seen are 3 ohms. I still don't know if those would work for you either.
I was thinking check the wiring for the load resistors too, double check that you didn't wire them to the parking light wires.
I tried two different grounds. One in the back hatch area on the body plug and the other right by the tail light bulb. The first resistors I have were 50w 6ohm the ones I just got were 25w 6ohm. I was hesitant to get the 25w 25 ohm ones. There is also a 25w 10ohm ones as well. We'll see if these work when I get them
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