LED bulbs that will swap directly

[LastSVXintheChi]

are there any LED bulbs that will swap into the blinkers directly without having to add anything to make them blink?

thanks

[icingdeath88]

LED bulbs by their nature draw less power than incandescents, so they will hyperblink. Unless you can find some LED bulbs with load resistors built in, which I haven't seen yet, you'll need to do something to get them to blink at the right rate.

[Crazy_pilot]

^^This. They'll blink, but it'll be at twice-ish the normal speed. You can replace the OEM flasher relay with one meant for LEDs to get things working correctly, or wire in a resistor to add some load to the circuit.

[LastSVXintheChi]

how would you add the resister? im not anything close to an electrician so if its real difficult then it would probably be out of the question

do you guys know of a good website to buy some bulbs from?

[Crazy_pilot]

These guys seem to have lots of listings:

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...rake-turn.html

If you go down the page toward the bottom you'll see the flasher units and resistors.

I may end up going with LEDs for my signals and license plate lights one day, but I don't know about the brake lights. If you installed LED brake lights in an SVX you'd be getting the "Stop lamp" dashboard light all the time because the car thinks a bulb is burnt out. To deal with this you have to add a resistor that brings the power draw back up to what a normal bulb would consume, so the end result is that you don't save any power using the LEDs. Alternatively you could disable the dashboard light.

[LastSVXintheChi]

the main reason i was looking into it was fro brightness because my rear lights are real dim.

they would still be brighter wouldn't they?