Interior/Exterior Anyone have the LED's w/ Resistors built in from autolumination?
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Anyone have the LED's w/ Resistors built in from autolumination?
Subject pretty much. I contacted them a while back about doing a complete exterior make over for my car and I told them the LED's flicker on my car and he said they have a special one made for that problem. Anyone have them or try? How is light output?
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OK, first of all, generally a resistor is added to LOWER the voltage down from 12V to whatever an LED will accept - a single LED generally can only handle about 4V (at 1200ma amperage), so hooking it up direct to the 12V will fry it. Places like Oznium have VERY good pre-wired LEDs with resistore pre-installed at good prices - SEE HERE for details. Bulk pricing available - I order these 10 or 20 at a time, and it's a HUGE time saver - soldering the resistors and double heat-shrinking the connection would take a while. I never bought one that wa sdead on arrival, either. The benefit of pre-resistored LEDS is that you can wire them in PARALEL, so if you lose an LED, everything past that accessory will remain lit - definitely a plus. You also never need to hassle with calculating the load of a series circuit, which can be a pain.
Second - I think what you're talking about is the flicker from some power supply points (the boot light power leads and possibly some places like the tail lights and marker lights) when the circuit should be in the OFF position. This is a known issue (trace voltage in the circuit when it should not be hot) and the fix is easy: get a 1k ohm resistor from Radio Shack for a few pennies (literally) and then solder it into the circuit in series. The resistor will absorb only a tiny amount of current - not nearly enough to visually dim the LED(s) but enough to absorb the trace voltage that remains in some lighting circuits in the "off" position. Lots of people (myself included) use the 1k ohm resistor in the boot light LED MOD, and it totally stops the flicker (see post #167 for details).
Second - I think what you're talking about is the flicker from some power supply points (the boot light power leads and possibly some places like the tail lights and marker lights) when the circuit should be in the OFF position. This is a known issue (trace voltage in the circuit when it should not be hot) and the fix is easy: get a 1k ohm resistor from Radio Shack for a few pennies (literally) and then solder it into the circuit in series. The resistor will absorb only a tiny amount of current - not nearly enough to visually dim the LED(s) but enough to absorb the trace voltage that remains in some lighting circuits in the "off" position. Lots of people (myself included) use the 1k ohm resistor in the boot light LED MOD, and it totally stops the flicker (see post #167 for details).
Last edited by ImagoX; 03-24-2008 at 02:10 PM.
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Imagox, how do these "pre-wired" lights actually connect to the factory wiring? do you have to splice in to your factory wires, or does the other end of the lights have a plug that simply plugs into a socket? I have the flicker effect going on with my front park lights, they also stay lit whenever someone uses their key fob around my car? So I always have ppl coming to tell me i left my lights on...would love to solve this issue, and maybe add a few accent lights around the car, but im always wary of cutting into my factory wiring.
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Imagox, how do these "pre-wired" lights actually connect to the factory wiring? do you have to splice in to your factory wires, or does the other end of the lights have a plug that simply plugs into a socket? I have the flicker effect going on with my front park lights, they also stay lit whenever someone uses their key fob around my car? So I always have ppl coming to tell me i left my lights on...would love to solve this issue, and maybe add a few accent lights around the car, but im always wary of cutting into my factory wiring.
those prewired ones seem pretty legit
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That's weird. I have LED strips in my foot wells, boot, dome light, reading lights, and for my license plate and as far as I no non of my LED's flicker at all. The outside ones might, but I've never seen them do it.
Look at 42draftdesigns they have a bunch of LED lights for VW's, but they worked great in my car.
Look at 42draftdesigns they have a bunch of LED lights for VW's, but they worked great in my car.
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Imagox, how do these "pre-wired" lights actually connect to the factory wiring? do you have to splice in to your factory wires, or does the other end of the lights have a plug that simply plugs into a socket? I have the flicker effect going on with my front park lights, they also stay lit whenever someone uses their key fob around my car? So I always have ppl coming to tell me i left my lights on...would love to solve this issue, and maybe add a few accent lights around the car, but im always wary of cutting into my factory wiring.
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