[Redfish]

Yesterday I decided to burn some money and go down to the truck stop and pick up some LED lights that I retrofitted into my OEM tail light housing. They are awesome! (Another thread with pics of the install is soon to come for the curious!)

Anyways, I have a LED light bar too. My rear end just doesn't seem complete without a LED 3rd brake light. What I am looking for is a good LED replacement bulb for the 3rd brake light, I don't want to pay 100 bucks for a LED housing.

Also about my turn signals... I expected to get the rapid "lamp out" indicating flashing,,, and thats what I got. I have heard to get the electronic flasher from Autozone and that will cure it. Well I stopped by there today and he said the flasher would work, but only last about a month because the LED's are a different frequency, some im like WTF. Is this true? If it is what is a good another flasher to use? The guy there showed me a variable load flasher, but he said they didn't have any in the ford 5 prong style, only 3 prong. Or should I just go the route or installing some resistors?

 

[Arisley]

Freguency, it is DC, the frequency is zero. If it was A/C a LED would only work half the time. Light emitting DIODE, a diode only allows current to pass in one direction. USAF basic electronics.

 

[Redfish]

I had a feeling what he said was :bs: he kept on telling me it wont last in my truck, so I said alright I wont buy it from you guys

 

[Arisley]

Do you have O'Reillys there. Much better.

 

[slowleak]

these work great

 

[Redfish]

Yeah closest Oriellys is in GA.

Slowleak, Those LED's are a little out of my price range, but if I lived in the Chocolate City I would have some nice bright flashing red Wheelen LED's all over my truck to keep the ************** away.

 

[slowleak]

lol i got the whole flashin light thing down pat. i got more whelen stuff than i know what to do with! i might have a red tir3 laying around i could sell you pretty cheap. i will look tommorrow and see. ill pm ya and let ya know

 

[Redfish]

Thanks man I would appreciate that very much!

 

[Redfish]

Well I went ahead and bought load compensator (aka resistors) from autozone. Same price as a new flasher, $13, and I didn't have to tear the dash off looking for the flasher. Everything works great now. BTW what is the bulb # for the third brake light?

 

[ngtstk3r]

hey red fish do you recall the part number for the resistors

 

[wsigo]

Holy thread revival Batman! Also, OP hasn't been active in over 8 months... just FYI.

Do a search on here, or on Google and you'll get all the info you could ever dream of regarding which resistor to use for LED's as turn signals.