flasher for sequential tail lights -- LED or not

[lking78]

i know you all are sick of my posts on this project -- hopefully, this will wrap it up --

tail lights work great but i'd like to slow the sequence -- AmericanMuscle sells a raxiom flasher to do that -- there is a V1 for incandescent bulbs and a v2 for LED -- the system i put in is LED and has the accompanying resistor to reduce the 12v down -- so it seems to me that i would use the V1 version of the flasher because that is what the lights are seeing now from the OEM flasher -- it still thinks the tall lights are incandescent bulbs -- my guess is the V2 flasher sends out a lower voltage pulse which would be further reduced by the resistor and the LED lights wouldn't get the proper voltage --

but i'd sure like to get your opinion if i am reading this right or out in left field which i seem to call home as often as not ....

many thanks

 

[ttocs]

it has nothing to do with the voltage, it has to do with the resistance. LEDs have a very low/almost no resistance vs an incandescent. The resistance in the circuit is how it reads if the bulb is bad and then interrupts the flasher so that your turn signal when one is burned out, it will tell you by not flashing the light by just staying on on the dash. When you reduce the resistance it confuses it.

 

[dsrtjeeper]

i know you all are sick of my posts on this project -- hopefully, this will wrap it up --

tail lights work great but i'd like to slow the sequence -- AmericanMuscle sells a raxiom flasher to do that -- there is a V1 for incandescent bulbs and a v2 for LED -- the system i put in is LED and has the accompanying resistor to reduce the 12v down -- so it seems to me that i would use the V1 version of the flasher because that is what the lights are seeing now from the OEM flasher -- it still thinks the tall lights are incandescent bulbs -- my guess is the V2 flasher sends out a lower voltage pulse which would be further reduced by the resistor and the LED lights wouldn't get the proper voltage --

but i'd sure like to get your opinion if i am reading this right or out in left field which i seem to call home as often as not ....

many thanks

Have you contacted AM?

 

[lking78]

my bad all the way -- if i had scrolled farther down on the product page -- i would have had my answer without bothering anybody --

 

[ttocs]

The difference between the flashers is the capacitor value if I am not mistaken. I am fairly sure of this because I wanted to slow mine down just a tad so (it has been a minute). I remember researching what was needed and then taking the flasher apart to remove the cap in there and replace it. I can't remember the values now I calculated that all out at the time(YEARS ago) but it worked.