because some gay *** cop will give you a ****in fix it ticket for blinkers blinkin too fast....lol...happened to me when i put led signals in mine..

but yah hectik is right you shuold go get the resistors from that site...or play artound with seperate resistors like flybyevo said...

 

You would want to slow it down so people can SEE them. We are not racing signal lights they are for safety.

 

My signal light flashed 10x before yours. Pay up.

So does this mean that HD LED's naturally have more resistance than regular LED's? I understand the principle, but I'm still curious. Electricity never made a whole lotta sense to me.

 

oh i have LED blinkers in my civic and havent been harrassed by cops yet and had them for 2 years... and people notice it when it blinks fast cuz it looks COOL lol j/k iono

 

Theoretically, neither have any resistance. In a perfect world, diodes are electronic components that both restrict the path of electricity to only one way. They can be used in lots of applications using this principle, but there are also many kinds of diodes. LEDs are Light-Emitting Diodes and as such, they emit light when an electrical current goes through them, but theoretically, they don't resist that flow any.

This is all ideal though, as it's impossible for electricity to pass through anything, even wire, with 0 resistance, but generally, the resistance of any diode is largely negligible.
-N

 

sorry for the thread jack but does anyone know if our blinkers are hooked up to our instrument cluster with a fuse?? Because my drivers' side front blinkers werent working and my cluster lights were out too for some rezason so i fixed the fuse and now they both work. WTF? I thought it was hooked up to a fuse in the fuse box inside the car not the one under the hood. Sooo just wondering if they could be hooked up to the same fuse or its a freak accedent.

 

The circuit for the blinkers are the same, regardless of whether it's the side markers, fronts, rears, or the instrument cluster. That way, when a bulb goes out, the capacitors in the timing circuit will cause the circuit to alternate on/off faster, letting the driver know a bulb is out somewhere.

That ultimately means that there's just one fuse for the circuit controlling the blinkers, and there are two circuits.... one for each side that encompasses the front, side, rear, and instrument cluster blinkers.
-N

 

Velocity LED on Ebay has a flasher with no minimum resistance so if you replace the factory flasher with that one you will not have the hyper flash problem, but they only have square ones with 3 or 4 prongs. Does anyone know what our factory turn signal flasher looks like and it's location?

 

Lancers (all models) use the ETACS to control the blinkers.... I've taken one apart and tried the flasher upgrade... it's not the same at all.... good luck trying to replace just the flasher. Buy some resistors and install them... only easy way.

 

for some reason my left blinkers decided to play around with me, when i started the car this morning it blinks at a normal pace but then it starts to speed up, only
the left side and when i turn on the hazard it blinks at the same pace

no dead bulbs...anyone know how to fix this? its driving me nuts...

 

I would guess you have a problem with the circuits in the ECU.

Most flasher units work on a thermal relay system. The speed of the flashing in these systems is directly related to the amount of current passing through the relay.

Now this is where it gets fun, the turn lamps are connected in parallel which means that the resistance is lower than the resistance of one lamp. When any one of the lamps burns out (resistance of that lamp becomes infinite), then the overall resistance of the lamps increases.

Since the lamps are in series with the flasher the resistance of the circuit is equal to the sum of the resistances of the components, meaning that if a lamp burns out the circuit has a higher resistance. If the resistance is higher then the current flowing through the circuit is lower. Since an LED uses a significantly smaller amount of current than an incandescent bulb does, to the flasher module it looks like a burned out bulb.

However, since the flasher is in the ECU, it could be an electronic type which generally is not susceptible to changes in circuit load. If this is the case (the factory service manual should be able to tell you if you can read circuit diagrams), then it is a problem with the timing circuit.

I guess it could also be a problem with the system voltage. You could check what the battery voltage is when it blinks fast.