Want to hook up the LED brakelights on my honda accord to a flasher, i've seen it in another car and it looks amazing, any idea what type of flasher and how to do it.
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LED Brake lights
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Others might have more info but I believe flashing brake lights are a violation of US DOT lighting standards, someone posted the citation on here or on the old board.
any led flasher will work, but you gotta add a capacitor or a resistor inline, i forget which one
Eh, the legal thing is kind of a gray area. I'm HIGHLY unlikely to say anything to a volly about their lights if they are using them correctly and aren't stupid with their driving. I have an Impala now with a built in traffic backer. As long as your brake and turn signals still work as they should (meaning BOTH lights act like they would when you don't have response mode activated) you should be ok.
911 said:
resistor. You are basically adding power draw to the circuit so the OEM flasher thinks a halogen bulb is still attached. Kinda defeats the power-saving benefits of switching to LED lights though.
RL1 said:
I agree, my impression on reading the post wasn't for a traffic backer for responding, I envisioned something to flash/pulse the lights when he stepped on the brake because "it looked amazing" as he put it.
I've seen on some trucks with cheap LED brake lights, they flash a few times quickly and then switch to normal steady-burn. Also I've seen a car with normal incandescent brake lights once with brake lights that flashed a few times, slower than LED, (abt 200 FPM) and then switched to steady-burn. That sort of brake light flashing is explicitly allowed in at least one state (CA) but i don't know if it's legal in any other state.
If you want to have the brake lights flash as long as you have your foot on the brake, that's probably much less likely to be legal.
If you want to have the brake lights flash as long as you have your foot on the brake, that's probably much less likely to be legal.
Cheap? I would not call Whelen technology cheap.. its called Signal Alert.nerdly_dood said:
Other companies have semi copied it as well for other applications: (some call it a Brake Light Pulsator as well)
http://www.pashnit.com/product/signal_dynamics.html
http://www.webelectricproducts.com/products.htm
http://www.watsons-streetworks.com/leds_taillights.html (second from bottom)
http://www.cyclegadgets.com/Products/Pr ... sp?item=BO
the sho me flasher will do what you want. i installed one of these last week on our rescue that has the 4" led tail lights and i must say it certainly adds an additional pop to the rear end. very easy to do too.
The lights themselves appear to be cheap, that wasn't saying anything about the method used to make them flash like that.unlisted said:
Regardless, I don't ever want to hear you even coming close to talking smack about Whelen..nerdly_dood said:
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I purchased a pair of led tail lights & a sho-me led flasher. After multiple attempts to make them work, I gave up & put vertexes in the reverse light section. The flasher for the stop turn tail lights will work on some, but apparently not all.
You won't.unlisted said:
...Except that they discontinued their Centurion line, I loved that lightbar. But apart from that I like them a lot.