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Old 06-08-06, 05:36 PM
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Is anyone interested in LED tails?
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Are they powered by LED bulbs, or indandecant bulbs with lens that make it look like LED?
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LED: I'm pretty sure they are either SuperFlux, or SnapLED. Not sure, I haven't taken them apart.
These are the specs:
-100% perfect fitment
-no light warning signal!!
-oem quality
-water proof with special seal inside the lamps
-oem wiring harnesses for easy installation.
-dot, sae, and e-marked

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Originally Posted by zumiez83
-no light warning signal!!
Does that mean if you have a bulb out, you have no "tail-lamp out" indicator?

-tc
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Originally Posted by tcheung87
Does that mean if you have a bulb out, you have no "tail-lamp out" indicator?

-tc
There are parallel linked, so no
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Yes, what he said above.

When people hook up LEDs to regular incandescent bulb plugs without a load equalizer, your car will think that your bulb is out (and the yellow indicator on dash will light up) because LEDs require less power. Therefore, your car thinks the bulb is out.
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Actually, yesterday I saw a new Toyota Highlander hybrid with LEDs--and it already surprisingly had 3 or so LEDs burnt out. That seems to only happen if there is a manufacturing defect on the LED circuit board-considering LEDs lenghtly lifespan--but who knows...

So if an LED does burn out, and if they are SnapLED's, theoretically you can just pop a new one in. Except you may have to take apart the light assembly.

The good thing about LED's is that if one burns out, you still have about twenty more or something depending on the lamp assembly that work, so the lighting function as a whole is still effective.
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How much and where can I get them?
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