Last week after driving down a particularly badly potholed road, my right turn signal went to hyperflash. ( sign of a blown bulb). Decided I'd check it out after work the next day. The right rear indicator bulb(separate from the tail light) wasn't lighting. Go into the store, head to the auto bulb aisle. Find the appropriate size, see they have an LED version available. I buy the LED, since this is an app where it will work just as well as incandescent, as i'm not trying to illuminate an area, just make sure the indicator is seen.
On this car, you have to remove the whole assembly from the body to change the bulb. When I pull that side, I see the bulb wasn't burned out, just jarred loose in the plug. But as I already had it pulled, I went ahead and replaced them both.
Couple days later I bit the bullet, and replaced the front turn/parking bulbs with LEDs as well.
Apparently this car doesn't have a separate flasher, so just swapping in an LED flasher won't work. ( it's built into the SJB) with a normal load it flashes 80 times a minute, with no/low load it goes to 120 flashes/min. Separate circut flashes the hazard lights, which still go at normal speed.
I can easily splice in load resistors, but would rather not splice in damp locations if I have a choice.
So TL
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with LED'S on all 4 corners, am I harming any components by just letting it hyperflash? If they were incandescent I would worry about shortening the life, but should I have the same worry for LEDs built for this type of application (flashing)???
Am I over thinking it?
On this car, you have to remove the whole assembly from the body to change the bulb. When I pull that side, I see the bulb wasn't burned out, just jarred loose in the plug. But as I already had it pulled, I went ahead and replaced them both.
Couple days later I bit the bullet, and replaced the front turn/parking bulbs with LEDs as well.
Apparently this car doesn't have a separate flasher, so just swapping in an LED flasher won't work. ( it's built into the SJB) with a normal load it flashes 80 times a minute, with no/low load it goes to 120 flashes/min. Separate circut flashes the hazard lights, which still go at normal speed.
I can easily splice in load resistors, but would rather not splice in damp locations if I have a choice.
So TL
R with LED'S on all 4 corners, am I harming any components by just letting it hyperflash? If they were incandescent I would worry about shortening the life, but should I have the same worry for LEDs built for this type of application (flashing)???
Am I over thinking it?
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