GISguy

Hi! I'm sorry if this has been posted before but I'm getting aftermarket housings which don't have amber glass, so as such, I've ordered 1157-size yellow LEDs to replace the turn-signal bulbs. Now I understand these will require a load resistor.

The most common load resistor online it seems is roughly 50W, 6ohm. I'm not sure how much wattage our cars push to the standard 1157 bulb so I'm not sure if that's enough/too much. Does anybody have any insight to this?

Rhoderman

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Is there a solid state flasher solution? I don't know for sure.

bhango

There is if the SC in question is, if I'm not mistaken, 95 or newer.

oldManTan

i've tried 3 different flashers and none work. so this is what you need. to achieve this you need to have LEDs in all your blinking lights however. so if you have LEDs all around this will work, if not, every time you turn the signal on you'll burn the resistor.

This is the resistor you need. 10 ohm or below.

then you open the flasher, and solder out the little metal loop and put the resistor in its place. Voila it works now. had mine for half a year now and my flasher is messed up and it still works sometimes. the first time i did it i burnt the resistor because i still had regular bulbs in the headlights.

if you get a really low ohm resistor like below 1 then when a light goes out the hyperblinking will happen again to notify you that a light is out.

OG Dada

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92-94 SC's are **** out of luck. But 95+ can be replaced with a digital flasher. You can see it on my Blue Flame thread what flasher worked for me.

oldManTan

i should have stated that the method i posted works on 92-94, i have a 92 with 97+ tails and LEDs all around

bhango

I'm glad it still works for you oldManTan. Had a heck of a time figuring that one out in the first place.

oldManTan

yea thanks for that man, that really helped out. except i need a new flasher or something is wrong. it sometimes hyperblinks like crazy and then stops, or sometimes just completely stops and then continues after a few seconds. what do you think it could be? bad connection on the solder which i doubt because it's caked in there, or the flasher going out because i had that little burn accident with the other resistor.

GISguy

Thanks Tan. I have a 1995.

bhango

My money is on something bad happening with the little burn. Thankfully new flashers aren't too costly for our years.

oldManTan

yea i'm just gonna go to the junk yard and grab one, hopefully it's still there