Running and signal lights

[szohar]

I connected an LED strip to the fender, I connected the LED(+) to running light(+) and the LED(-) to signal(+), the LED is on when running and when signaling it is blinking as planed. The only problem I have is that it is blinking fast that looks the same as the blinking frequency when you have a bad bulb.

Any idea how to fix it to get the typical blinking frequency?

 

[NancysToy]

It is load related. With the lower resistance LED in parallel you have lowered the overall resistance of the circuit. Same effect as a burned out bulb. LEDs with built-in load compensation or the appropriate sized resistor in series with the LED would probably do the trick, but I am not savvy enough to tell you how to calculate the right value.

 

[finless]

Oooops posted to the wrong thread.

Bob

 

[Bob Ledford]

Try a low ohm resistor in the 5 to 10 ohm range just a SWAG on my part!

You can probably SWAG a good fix anywhere betwen 5 and 10 ohms of resistance and probably need swag the wattage at between 1/2 TO 1 WATT should be enough. If the resistor body is to hot to handle increase the wattage by 2X. The higher the wattage the bigger the resistor body size is.

Just a thought since I don't really work with LEDS that often. But I think you might have to insert a diode in series with the resistor but I need to dig into some indepth research on that one.