Switchback LED turn signal as running lights with load resistor?
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Switchback LED turn signal as running lights with load resistor?
I tried looking around, couldnt find anything. Needa know how to wire this up!
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You put the bulb in. tap one end of resistor into blue posative for turn signal. Tap negative into ground. If you want to put resistors on the white side as well to protect them. Tap one end of resistor onto the brown parking light wire, and the other end to a ground. The end.
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Resistors for turn signals don't "protect" anything, they just mimic the presence of a light bulb to stop the car from thinking a bulb is burnt out. Putting a resistor on the parking light wire will just cause the resistor to get abnormally hot and possibly start melting things or catch fire. Not a smart idea.
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Resistors for turn signals don't "protect" anything, they just mimic the presence of a light bulb to stop the car from thinking a bulb is burnt out. Putting a resistor on the parking light wire will just cause the resistor to get abnormally hot and possibly start melting things or catch fire. Not a smart idea.
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No that's connected right, but that's why I said connecting a resistor to the parking lights is a bad idea. Yours gets hot when the signal is on, just imagine how hot it would get if the resistor was "on" constantly. Just trying to keep things from burning.
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ok so are u sayin noone should get different bulbs or leds cause there 4 you must get resistors to make it stop but ur sayin gettin them is a bad idea so there for my as well not get leds or diff. bulbs period right lol
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Resistors connected to the parking lights is what the bad idea is, which is what was mentioned a few posts back. Using the resistors on the turn signals, the way they were meant to be used and what they were designed for, is perfectly fine. They are only meant to stop the hyper flashing of the turn signal anyway.
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what about if your switchbacks work fine as a turn signal but the white running lamp does come on... i just tried a set of red led taillight bulbs from vleds as well in my moms g5 and they worked as a brake light but they didnt work as a running lamp...
its as if the bcm sees a "Short" and opens the circuit for that bulb and keeping the running lamps from working
its as if the bcm sees a "Short" and opens the circuit for that bulb and keeping the running lamps from working
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