K2 Led Tails resistors and fire???
07-31-2014, 08:21 PM
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K2 Led Tails resistors and fire???
4 stupid questions:
1. Are these the correct resistors to stop the stupid hyperflash? Or has someone found a smaller/better option???? COST IS NO CONCERN...
2. Since these resistors get hotter than me watching a stripper... if they are in the trunk by our highly flammable cheap trunk cloth material (which I am sure catches fire faster than my neighbors dog - after I sprayed it with gas and lit it).... has anyone caught on fire? ...
Cause slower blinking is not worth fire...IMOP...
3. If you don't care about hyperflash will this cause in the future some kind of code to be thrown or will it simply annoy the fool behind me who has OCD and does not like fast blinkers...
4. Can you stick the OEM bulb in the rear tails and screw the leds..? Or will it burn up the tail lights...or something?
1. Are these the correct resistors to stop the stupid hyperflash? Or has someone found a smaller/better option???? COST IS NO CONCERN...
2. Since these resistors get hotter than me watching a stripper... if they are in the trunk by our highly flammable cheap trunk cloth material (which I am sure catches fire faster than my neighbors dog - after I sprayed it with gas and lit it).... has anyone caught on fire? ...
Cause slower blinking is not worth fire...IMOP...3. If you don't care about hyperflash will this cause in the future some kind of code to be thrown or will it simply annoy the fool behind me who has OCD and does not like fast blinkers...
4. Can you stick the OEM bulb in the rear tails and screw the leds..? Or will it burn up the tail lights...or something?
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07-31-2014, 09:43 PM
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Cool, so not better resistor options? Is there any 50W 6Ohm LED Load Resistors sold local like at a Radio Schack or something that anyone has used so I don't have to wait for two weeks ?
07-31-2014, 10:25 PM
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50W 6Ohm LED Load Resistors ....these things are like 5 inches....don't they make them smaller ...?? Geez there bigger than my dik....
Anyone find these things smaller that work?
Anyone find these things smaller that work?
07-31-2014, 11:28 PM
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Ive had a set of those laying on my counter simce last fall, cannot work up the inspiration to install them. Plus idk which two wires to tie em into lol.
Oh and I have led front signals now so surely id need a set up there too -_-
Oh and I have led front signals now so surely id need a set up there too -_-
07-31-2014, 11:33 PM
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Or just when you use the turn signal? Etc...
08-01-2014, 12:09 AM
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I've grown to embrace the hyper flash. It's kinda convenient for quick lane changes. Definitely grabs attention. I understand that at the same time people probably hate sitting at stop lights with me, but that's ok.
08-01-2014, 08:41 AM
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It's easy rice, they go between the plus and minus on the blinkers. On the K2 lights that's the black and red wires.
They only get really hot when you're sitting at a light with your foot on the brake. That's because the same wire powers the blinkers and the brake lights. Think of the resistors as regular light bulbs. They simulate the resistance a regular incandescent bulb causes, and get just as hot in the process.
Well now we know what you do in your spare time rice 
08-01-2014, 02:20 PM
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See burning ^^
Okay so let me summarize...
Resistors are hot and can burn and melt ****....(near the rear of a your car where there is gas and battery fumes...people didn't die from the ignition switch recall initially either....)
I save money and I don't have to solder ****...( cause you know those taps are going to come loose and your going to have to solder it)
I can irritate their eyes with hyperflash and their ears with my exhaust...(double positive.)
Hyperflash is not going to throw a code and does nothing harmful to your car in any way....
I'm a lazy azz who is trying to find reasons for not doing it right...??
Does this summarize it?...
Okay so let me summarize...
Resistors are hot and can burn and melt ****....(near the rear of a your car where there is gas and battery fumes...people didn't die from the ignition switch recall initially either....)
I save money and I don't have to solder ****...( cause you know those taps are going to come loose and your going to have to solder it)
I can irritate their eyes with hyperflash and their ears with my exhaust...(double positive.)
Hyperflash is not going to throw a code and does nothing harmful to your car in any way....
I'm a lazy azz who is trying to find reasons for not doing it right...??
Does this summarize it?
...
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08-01-2014, 02:45 PM
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My first noob move was to cover the resistor with electrical tape so it wont be hot to the touch.... wrong, my car was smelling like burning everytime I was at a light. And then the tape finnaly burned off and I try to take it off...... funny thing, I could lol.... another noob move, I began scratching the tape off the resistors witha knife, paint came off lol. I left it like that. And later got tired of not being seen during the day, went back to halogen bulbs.
08-01-2014, 03:04 PM
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My first noob move was to cover the resistor with electrical tape so it wont be hot to the touch.... wrong, my car was smelling like burning everytime I was at a light. And then the tape finnaly burned off and I try to take it off...... funny thing, I could lol.... another noob move, I began scratching the tape off the resistors witha knife, paint came off lol. I left it like that. And later got tired of not being seen during the day, went back to halogen bulbs.
How about heat shield tape on the underside of carpet near the resistor?
I wouldn't think on top of the resistor because not allowing it to dissipate its own heat probably is not good or will reduce its life span...
You mentioned "not being seen during the day" did you mean that that the led K2 lights have minimal viability during the day?
08-01-2014, 05:57 PM
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That's the first time I've heard anyone complain about the brightness of the K2 LED rings! I wonder if something's wrong with your lights. I'm in Colorado (which by the way should have been called the sunshine state, 320 sunny days a year) and it is plenty bright here most days and I have no issues whatsoever...
08-01-2014, 06:20 PM
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They were working fine, like at said night time they look good, nice and bright. But my complain was on daytime. I would like to try again but without the smoked ones. Regular red lense.
At that time I wasn't thinking of doing a test of one k2 the other halogen bulb, to show it.
At that time I wasn't thinking of doing a test of one k2 the other halogen bulb, to show it.
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