L.E.D. Lights

[jconway23]

I know there are many threads about this topic. But alot of them are older now and LED's have changed a little bit. I'm all LED except my front side markers (cause I forgot about them) And the other night I noticed my License Plate lights acting like a strobe light. Both of them. I was thinking wiring (which I never mess with), but I decided to pull them out and noticed it was only one LED on each bulb. So I guess I need new ones.

My questions is.....Has anyone ordered recently. Just the front side marker and license plate. Just curious as to what you bought.

Thanks,
Jesse

 

[Prime]

The strobe effects is due to cheap LEDs overheating. Yes, things have changed a lot in this game in the last few years. Everything I get comes from vleds.com now. They cost a little more than some of the other companies, but I've yet to find a better drop in replacement bulb.

 

[jconway23]

Yeah I think mine are from superbrightleds.com I think at the time i ordered mine vleds website was down. They've been working for me for a few years now. I just happened to notice them the other day.

 

[Prime]

I had some old superbrights in my Mustang over the license plate from years ago. Just started doing the same. Old LEDs are old.

 

[TJTJ]

I don't think its over heating so much as the new X's and the LED needing an adapter between them to smooth out the current flow. The cheap LED don't include that circuit, and the good ones do.

Its the same for LED head light kits, etc.

 

[civicjoe]

I believe tjtj is correct here, because to get the arb bumper turn signals to work properly you need led turn signals in you headlight turn signal and a transistor of some kind to make it work right other wise you blinkered will blink won't

 

[Prime]

When dealing with a load based flashers you are correct. Adding another incandescent load like the extra signals in the ARB bumper would make the flasher malfunction because the load would be more than the flasher was designed to handle. That is where an LED compliant flasher comes in. It will flash at the same rate regardless of the load on the circuit. This is more complicated on the 2nd gen trucks because of the bus system, but on the 1st Gen it's just a plug and play fix.