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Member EV Projects => Add-On Projects => Topic started by: ted.lowe on December 28, 2007, 11:54:56 PM
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Jim Dawson was kind enough to give me 2 LED lamps for my S10 after he spoke on the subject (many months ago).
These are amber colored turn/parking lights for the front. The http://www.heavy-dutylighting.com (http://www.heavy-dutylighting.com) part no. is HD1157YSD:
(http://www.fveaa.org/members/tedlowe/ftp/projs/led-bulb{IMG_3292.png)
Jim told me i'd probably have to change out the old (1992) thermal flasher for a new digital one because the LEDs use so much less current, the old ones think the bulbs are burned out and don't blink :-)
i happened upon this great article for modifying the blink-rate of a digital flasher in case i need to:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Automotive-electronic-flasher-rate-modification. (http://www.instructables.com/id/Automotive-electronic-flasher-rate-modification.)
It's a simple modification, replacing a fixed resistor with an external variable one to determine/adjust the desired blink rate. Perhaps the blink rate could be synched with the tempo of the currently playing song :D Here's one of the pictures from the Instructable to whet your whistles:
(http://www.instructables.com/files/deriv/FK8/C7N7/F6S8RXK0/FK8C7N7F6S8RXK0.MEDIUM.jpg)
More later...
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Great post, Ted. I found another source for the LED lights called www.superbrightleds.com. I bought some home lighting bulbs from them and plan to put these on my EV when the time comes. There are many advantages, as discussed. Replacing the flasher relay is a small price to pay.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/carbulb-notes.htm
-TK