Load Resistors
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Re: Load Resistors
you install a load resistor across each light (power and ground) line, in parallel to the LED, to increase the current load pulled so the car senses that load and dosent think a light is out.... LED's dont draw enough current on their own and the car thinks a light has burnt out..... like my drivers brake light just did.....
I have the LED's on my license and like them.... remember that the load resistors get very warm..even hot....so place the load resistors where they wont hurt anything and can dissipate the heat....
I have the LED's on my license and like them.... remember that the load resistors get very warm..even hot....so place the load resistors where they wont hurt anything and can dissipate the heat....
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Re: Load Resistors
Originally Posted by James1549
Nick, if you would have asked about them before the Dragon, I could have brought you a new set of 4 resistors. I bought them for my clear side markers but decided to stay with regular colored bulbs. They do indeed get very hot.
James
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Re: Load Resistors
Load resistors are resistors that draw some current to load or PAD the load to increase the current drawn so that the computer thinks everything is operating as it was first built. Now were adding losses to make up for the high efficiency lights - HID and LEDs. Go figure.Woody
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