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  • lumanikus
    Member
    • Jun 2006
    • 98

    #1

    LED relay?

    Hey is anyone making a blinker relay to cure the LED fast blink issue / error panel?

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  • AndrewBird
    The Mad Scientist
    • Oct 2003
    • 11892

    #2
    You can buy solid state flashers at just about any auto parts stores. They use a computer chip to control the flashing, so the LED's don't affect it.

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    • Mr. Tasty
      No R3VLimiter
      • Jul 2011
      • 3421

      #3
      why not just run a resistor in line with the LED?
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      • AndrewBird
        The Mad Scientist
        • Oct 2003
        • 11892

        #4
        Originally posted by codyep3
        why not just run a resistor in line with the LED?
        Because it's the really ghetto way of doing it? And you have to do it with EVERY bulb. Solid state flasher just plugs in and is done. All bulbs taken care of.

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        • Coupelx
          Advanced Member
          • Oct 2013
          • 169

          #5
          Originally posted by AndrewBird
          Because it's the really ghetto way of doing it? And you have to do it with EVERY bulb. Solid state flasher just plugs in and is done. All bulbs taken care of.
          well said.

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          • lumanikus
            Member
            • Jun 2006
            • 98

            #6
            Originally posted by AndrewBird
            You can buy solid state flashers at just about any auto parts stores. They use a computer chip to control the flashing, so the LED's don't affect it.
            I scoured every local parts store and I couldn't come up with any. Not for an e30, not amber and red. I have to have colored LED's because of the lenses I'm running.

            I'm not going to run inline resistors, that"s not happening.
            If anyone knows of good led's amber red , please link me? Projects are piling up
            I would like to get the "little" wins ya know?
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            • 15Michaeljoseph
              E30 Mastermind
              • Aug 2013
              • 1693

              #7
              Dunno man both my local autozone and Napa carry led tails and iirc the correct wedge sidemarker bulbs

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              • AndrewBird
                The Mad Scientist
                • Oct 2003
                • 11892

                #8
                The flasher isn't an LED. It's what makes the turn signals flash. You won't find one specific for an E30, they are universal. Something like this:

                http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Turn...+state+flasher

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                • lumanikus
                  Member
                  • Jun 2006
                  • 98

                  #9
                  Thanks, after you guys had mentioned how common the led's with built in error correction was i looked again. With new search terams that apparently made all the difference. I ordered a few and ill see what happens when the get here. For now i have the fast blink going.
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