Thread: LED turn signals

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As stated on another post, you can add a regular bulb to load a thermal flasher, but a good electonic flasher may not need one.
There are 'dummy loads' sold to take the place of a hidden bulb.
I did all three things to my '37 and ended up doing something different anyways... Know why?
There are a lot of LED lights out there, but few are bright enough to work well woth 1930's glass lenses.
LED's are real directional (meaning they are bright if you are looking right down the barrell, but not very bright from an angle.
As I said, I had LED's in my truck and had the joy of following it during the day one time. You could hardly see the brake lights at all. They were worse than the original 6 volt bulbs.
I ended up leaving the LED's in the frone, where the clear lens glass didn't cut down the light emitted... Then I put halogen bulbs in the back and have been very happy since.
Perhaps some of those newer pizza style LED's would be better...

Some LED compariaon pic's are at:
http://community.webshots.com/album/54792831KPkAjw
Jeff