Anybody had any success with changing the bulbs in their blinkers to LED rather than the entire light assembly. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2-Car-LE..._Parts_Accessories&hash=item4abf4b848f&_uhb=1
It works ok but you will require a led flasher unit and maybe need to buy led dash globe as well. This depends on the type of led flasher unit.
As a burned out old auto electrician I can sort out an electronic flasher unit.. build my own if necessary.. just wondering how bright these are compared to Led blinkers per se. I guess I should have stated that up front.
From my experience they are as bright or brighter. I have used ebay ones and Jaycar. I will say the ones in the link are white. Most forums recomend yellow for yellow and red for red etc
I replaced the tail/brake light with one. No probs so far and no one has run into the back of me yet.
I tried these: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/310957323171 Which had about the same light output as a candle. Cree LED's might be better? Decided to stay with incandescent bulbs in the indicators, but used these in the tail light. www.ebay.com.au/itm/221322016555 DR650RS has 2 rear facing stop/tail bulbs and stopped in my driveway with the brake light on at night, it lights up the neighbours fence (about 30m away) Fecking bright!
Had a crack & built my own out of some aluminium square bar i had in the shed. How to do it....well, #1, make sure the beer fridge is full, slink out to the shed away from the Mrs, shape up some aluminium or whatever takes your fancy, drill a 10mm hole & drop in a 10mm orange LED & wire a 0.5 watt 120 Ohm resistor in series on the positive wire, mount em up any way ya like, then once youve got flashing lights, bloody well sit back & reward yourself with another beer for a job well done all up cost me less than $5 from Jaycar
Ain't that the truth! Somewhere in is the minimum distance they have to stick out as well as required brightness level etc. Somewhere.
Viewing angles, colour temperature etc etc :eek1 But, it does look like it was written to accommodate more modern lighting such as LEDs. Fortunately it seems so complex that it might be hard to police. but it wouldn't take Einstein to realize that my dodgy DR setup is a long way from legal or safe.
