04-02-2017, 04:28 AM | #1 |
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Front LED Turn Signals - Hyperflash
Hi all,
as I didn't want to use these standard resistor kits that you can't find everywhere (they get extremely hot and I don't want to burn any plastic or drill holes in the chassis), I tried a set of LED decoders instead. Explanation here: http://www.ebay.com/gds/The-Differen...5537460/g.html They work fine most of the time, once in 10-20 uses of the turn signals, I occasionally still get a hyperflash (same thing on both sides). Does anyone have any experience with this? Cheers, Len |
04-02-2017, 09:33 AM | #2 |
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You will get the hyperflash with that type of rissisters.
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04-02-2017, 03:24 PM | #3 |
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04-02-2017, 09:13 PM | #4 |
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04-02-2017, 11:38 PM | #5 | |
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I know they get hot and you don't like that but it's what works. |
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04-03-2017, 12:26 AM | #6 | |
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However, both of your replys did not help my actual question at all ("why does it not work all of the time, but most of the time? =technical explanation"). |
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04-03-2017, 09:49 AM | #7 |
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any bulbs with someone built into them?
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04-03-2017, 10:41 AM | #8 | |
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Now here is how the car works, the BCM is programed to look for a Draw of 12-15V, and depending on the bulbs in the car, 6-9 amps of power, with out that it thinks there is a bulb outage and falls back to the hyperflash as a way to tell you something is not right. So now do you see that a capacitor can not get you to the right amount of AMP Draw to make the BCM think you have the right Bulbs. If you wander why not, do what you did with the rear light add a resister, IMO that is not the right way, from test we did here if you drive hard the way we did the LED fall in the housing, and we did test it on the track and ended up with 2 LED tail light bulbs in the tail light, but its your car and you can do with it as you like. Not meant to insult but to show you why it does not work, if you cut open the canbus unit you will find resisters in there and that is whats triking your BCM some of the time but not all the time, here are pic of that test that you did not do. this pic is one one side and it goes from a .3 Ohm to a .4 Ohm in the next pic. Here we reversed to the other side of the convector and got 20 Ohm's, that will not work, dont know as we did not test what happens when you add power to this unit, if the Ohms go up or down. 3rd pic. With this i hope we showed you what will work and not, i am out of this thread, GL. |
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04-04-2017, 01:37 AM | #9 | |
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It's not hard to understand. It's simply not answering the actual question.
You have just explained how a capacitor and the BCM work, which was no news at all. Still no explanation, why sometimes it's hyperflashing and 95% of the times I can leave the turn light on even for minutes and it's working perfectly. Quote:
Ok, cheers. |
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04-04-2017, 10:59 AM | #10 | |
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The only way to fix Hyperflash is to get the Amp draw where the BCM thinks it needs to be, and the Ebay parts dont do that. Last if you love soldering on resisters that sale for $.07 why spend all that $ for some 1/2 ass cap ? |
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04-04-2017, 11:21 AM | #11 | |
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Mate, just leave it, ok? |
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04-04-2017, 11:32 AM | #12 |
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Your problem is that you replaced the bulbs, but didn't change the fluid. Always gotta change the fluid when you swap bulbs. I use this for high-temp applications.
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04-04-2017, 11:45 AM | #13 |
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Just waiting for 2SSRS@Gen5diy to respond and explain that your blinker fluid will not work for him, because he's tracking the car ten times harder than everbody else combined.
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04-04-2017, 01:21 PM | #14 |
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That will fix your cars problem right there, try it and get back to us on how it works out, but in the mean time we will use what we know works, good luck.
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