Re: Re: Gen II clear corner lights

From: Michael Maskalans (dml@tepidcola.com)
Date: Wed Jun 23 2004 - 20:09:04 EDT


On Jun 23, 2004, at 18:40, Travis Bailey wrote:

> The LED's have no resistance

very very little. nothing that does work has no resistance. even
wires have resistance. just to be a nit-picker....

> and some cars see this as a burnt out bulb and flash quickly to try
> and tell you there is a bulb out.

it's useful as "telling" you you have a bulb out, but it's really a
side effect of the thermal flasher seeing less resistance and acting
faster.

> I tested my APC lights with the hazard flasher to compare left to
> right, which worked fine

that doesn't tell you the whole story - when I just had the tails in,
the 4-ways worked fine, but the turn signals were fast. With all the
LEDs in, the 4-ways were fast, and the signals wouldn't even signal.

> HOWEVER I think you have a more computer controlled gen3 don't you?

I've got more computer, but the PCM doesn't talk to the signals, and
the PCM doesn't do the flashing. If it did, I'd expect that they'd
have done a timer for the flashing, and an idiot indicator for burned
out bulbs. At least that's how I'd do it.

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