glafit HID and Pikaq LEDs

[Magpie]

You will need to take your lights out to get the ballasts where I have put mine. They are in the space at the front of the headlights when they go down. You can tie your cables to the same place as the existing cables to avoid getting them pinched. Also take care where you put the relays as I have just replaced one due to water ingress. The water ingress has been progressive over the time I installed them.

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[Dupain]

Cheers Magpie for the info.

[Dupain]

Hi

I installed my LEDs tonight.

Just one problem.

The front Amber LED indicators are fine but when I installed the rears they blink at a much faster rate.

What can I do to make the blinkers blink at the normal rate?

[ED_MX5]

You need to purchase load resisters.
A normal 21w incandescent bulb draws approx 2 amps. An L.E.D equivalent draws 0.2 amps.
So the load on the circuit is much much lower. The flasher relay is designed to operate with a certain load, so when you reduce the load with L.E.D's... it flashes faster.

To fix it, you need to wire in some resistors.
Some people buy normal resisters from somewhere like jaycar and figure out how many ohms they need.
Another way is to buy the premade one from an auto shop. Normally made for trailers.
You should be able to track some down on the internet pretty easy too.

Hope this helps.

[Dupain]

Cheers ED.

[Dupain]

You need to purchase load resisters.
A normal 21w incandescent bulb draws approx 2 amps. An L.E.D equivalent draws 0.2 amps.
So the load on the circuit is much much lower. The flasher relay is designed to operate with a certain load, so when you reduce the load with L.E.D's... it flashes faster.

To fix it, you need to wire in some resistors.
Some people buy normal resisters from somewhere like jaycar and figure out how many ohms they need.
Another way is to buy the premade one from an auto shop. Normally made for trailers.
You should be able to track some down on the internet pretty easy too.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

[Dupain]

ED

Ended up getting a couple a led resistor set @$10 on ebay. Thanks again.

[ED_MX5]

No problem at all. Glad to help.
looks great!

[Magpie]

Have you got the HID's in yet?

[Dupain]

Not yet Magpie. Just running into obstacles with the other work and the car has been at the mechanic at Dural all last week. But will let you know how the install go.

[Dupain]

No problem at all. Glad to help.
looks great!

This is the reverse light (white) below. Very sharp and define. Can't take a pic of the brake lights for you though.

[ED_MX5]

That looks nice..
Now I know my next mod
I did that too my last car, just havn't got around to it yet on this one.
Only had the car a few weeks.

We'll have to go for a drive sometime mate.

[Dupain]

Got the resistors you mentioned ED today. Small @5cm, with two mounting points. The thing gets hot under use but since they are for the blinkers, they won't be on extendedly - I'll just use plastic ties to fix them.

[Snowmotion]

Jaycar sell some ceramic resistors that are about $0.50 and you just solder in line like you have done.

[4sfed5]

you dont need load resistors...you just need to mod the flasher relay. there is a resistor in the relay that is a heap cheaper to replace than load resistors.. just open up the relay. Change the "R1" resistor from a 5.6Kohm to a 1 megohm value...done