PancakeShake
Been Around the Block
Alright.
So I bought a billion LED lights and made my own tail light and blinkers. Looks great so far and the brake lights work awesome.
However, I ran into an issue with the blinkers.
I bought some resistors so the LED's dont fry with the 12v from the battery and put a resistor before each LED's circuit. When touched off to the 12v the lights light up nice and bright, dont fry, look great.
NOW.
I bought an electric flasher and installed that. But when I turn on the blinkers, the light come on and stay on.
Took me a while to figure it out, but, this is ok though because it should happen, because the resistors block the amount of current flow through the circuit and this doesn't allow enough voltage to trip the flasher.
SOOO in order to consume the full 12v I wired an original bulb in parallel with the LED circuit to activate the halogen bulb and use the voltage from that positive wire to also flash the LED's.
This works great, however, I have to have an original bulb wired into the system somewhere so I have some bright random light flashing behind the headlight and I dont want it.
SOOOO, I need something to draw the full 12v that I can put in parallel with the LED circuits.
SOOOO, do I need..
A) Capacitor? To consume the voltage?
B) Load Equalizer?
C) Something else?
Made it this far using the forum so im sure you guys can help me out with this last little piece!
Thanks.
So I bought a billion LED lights and made my own tail light and blinkers. Looks great so far and the brake lights work awesome.
However, I ran into an issue with the blinkers.
I bought some resistors so the LED's dont fry with the 12v from the battery and put a resistor before each LED's circuit. When touched off to the 12v the lights light up nice and bright, dont fry, look great.
NOW.
I bought an electric flasher and installed that. But when I turn on the blinkers, the light come on and stay on.
Took me a while to figure it out, but, this is ok though because it should happen, because the resistors block the amount of current flow through the circuit and this doesn't allow enough voltage to trip the flasher.
SOOO in order to consume the full 12v I wired an original bulb in parallel with the LED circuit to activate the halogen bulb and use the voltage from that positive wire to also flash the LED's.
This works great, however, I have to have an original bulb wired into the system somewhere so I have some bright random light flashing behind the headlight and I dont want it.
SOOOO, I need something to draw the full 12v that I can put in parallel with the LED circuits.
SOOOO, do I need..
A) Capacitor? To consume the voltage?
B) Load Equalizer?
C) Something else?
Made it this far using the forum so im sure you guys can help me out with this last little piece!
Thanks.