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LED taillight
Written by dl_page on 10/26/2010 at 08:10 pm

Hum.... are you sure about that? If you have less load on the circuit (for
example a blown bulb that is now open circuit), half the load=twice the flashing
speed. Surely you want to increase the load to drop the speed down?

Cheers,
Daniel

--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, Wolfgang Kaufmann <pc800@...> wrote:
>
> Am 26.10.2010 21:45, schrieb dl_page:
> >
> > The turn indicators were sold as "containing resistors to work with
indicator relay", though in practice, my indicators work at about 120 flashes
per minute (ok, still legal - barely) and turn cancel works magic.
> >
> > All in all, not too bad, and gives the alternator a rest, but tomorrow, I
may run off to my local electronics supply shop to find some big 5w resistors
and hook them up in line with each bulb, just to get the turn rate down
though...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel
>
> Daniel,
>
> you want to hook up your resistor parallel to the LEDs, not in line,
> because you want to bring the total resistance down !
>
> In line would increase the total resistance (total = LED + resistor),
> thus the blinking rate would increase even more !
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Wolfgang Kaufmann (Austria/Europe),
> iPCRC # 634
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