- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
Ok, so I built a new rear bumper last year and I used LED taillights. They look great, but since they draw so much less power, they blink REALLY fast. So, does anyone know how to fix this?
LED Turn Signal timing
- Thread starter Stephen
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DaveB
Long Jeep Fan
- Location
- Holladay, Utah
Add a dummy resistor (or light) as a load to make it draw the same current that it would draw with a normal light.
waynehartwig
www.jeeperman.com
- Location
- Mead, WA
TRAILRIDER12
OLD JEEP NEW PARTS
- Location
- NEW CASTLE COLORADO
Normally Less Resistance Makes The Flasher Flash Slower, If The Flash Is Real Fast You May Have A Slight Pinch In Wire Insulation Or A Slight Short, If You Can't Find Anything Try A Truck Stop They Have A Motorized Flasher That Flashes Correctly With Any Load
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
I do, $65 (to your door) for a modified new one from me...
A new what?
waynehartwig
www.jeeperman.com
- Location
- Mead, WA
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
You've got one for a Samurai that will reduce the speed of the signals?
waynehartwig
www.jeeperman.com
- Location
- Mead, WA
Oh, Sami, ummm... I don't know WHY I assumed that you had a Jeep!
These should work though, but it wouldn't be an OEM swap, unless the Sami uses the same flasher? These are 5 pin and you could probably hook it up with some connecters and such. Picking up some 5 ohm resistors from your local Radio Shack, like Dave suggested, might be easier (and cheaper)though. Simply splicing them inline with the light should be sufficient to cure what ales you.
Lifelong Jeeper
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Murray
The reason it flashes faster is because the LED lights draw less power than the OEM bulb. The way new vehicles work is if you have a bulb out it will blink faster to notify you that you need to change a bulb. With the LED's drawing less power the vehicle thinks it has a bulb out ergo flashes quicker. I believe that you need to just get a different flasher relay in your fuse box but I don't know which one.
KHalls
Extendurai
- Location
- Up The Creek
Grote LED flasher # 44892 supposedly fits and cures this. If you can find one let me know where so I can get one and try it on mine.
lilsamiman
Stupid TV, be more funny!
- Location
- North Lehi, Utah
Checker, and auto zone carry a fix for this too. I also put L.E.D tails and turns on my sami bumper. It about ten for both sides. Just four splices and poof. In checkers its in the rice rocket sections. Up in the right hand corner. Really easy. Oh I tried the grote flasher with no luck. I also have a buddy who works at fleet lite. 17th s Redwood. Great place.
http://www.rockcrawler.com/techreports/oyrcorners_led/page4.asp
This is the fix for any TJ owner
This is the fix for any TJ owner
Wanker Delux
The Other Greg
- Location
- Too Far North
I agree, this is the best, and probably the coolest solution. I had the same problem and just wired in a couple of normal bulbs inside the front grill, the do flash faster than normal, but I kinda prefer the added visibility.
Another cool mod that I did, use a trailer light converter and get rid of the amber lights on the back, works like a champ!