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Old 12-29-2007, 10:51 PM
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LED Rear Turn Signals... Which one do you prefer?

Which one do you guys think will be better for the Rear Turn Signals? This one has 36 LED's:



This one has 18 LED's:



These can be found on this page:

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I want the LED that will fill the housing the best.
Old 12-30-2007, 12:57 AM
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White!
Old 12-30-2007, 07:53 AM
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Haha.. not color I mean which type, the SMT one or the Matrix one.
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both will fit, no difference. you will get a better effect with the 18SMT in red
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Why not the SMT Tower 2 with 24 LEDS? Those would be even brighter. I thought there was a thread started on these a few days ago.
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SMT's it is.
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you getting the 18 or the 24 LED ones?
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I ordered SMTs for the front and rear from VLEDS and have yet to get them. (Dec 18th)



now I realize I will need some load balancers.. I guess you will too

[or load resistor i guess]
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I've tried both, SMT's are brighter. I'm using them now in my tails right now. Make sure to get it in red. I thought originally white would be brighter but it wasn't so I exchanged them for RED SMT"s.
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i'd love to see a video of how this works

where do u install the resistor load thingie?
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Where are you guys putting the LEDs in the rear?? I thought the rear/tail lights were an LED board already. I see the fronts, but I'll have to go look at my rears. I see that it should be the 7440 in the back and the dual-circuit 7443 in the front. I wanna do this too. I love low-current lights. But whats with the load resistor thing? Is that just to make the lights blink properly? I had that problem in the Blazer and I had to change the flasher to an electronic model. Even then, I had to leave at least one incandescent bulb in the circuit to trigger the flasher. ALL LEDs didn't draw enough current to trigger the flasher. I left the bulbs in the dash indicators.
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Get the switchbacks. I would go with the white.
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^^ I take this back I thought we were talking about the front turn signals.
Go red because then it will be way brighter.
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red....smt....is there an echo in here? jkidding.
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