Ok as stated, I bought some track77 led indicators off Ebay, exchanged my led ones for the track77's tried it and it blew the LED? WTF!! anyone have expierance with these? they didnt come with their own resistor or relais? any help would be cool cheers in advance guys
Think you need to buy some in line resistors, never heard of it blowing the led before just dont work usually
Tell me about it, I have resistors in already three in series... from the old leds that i took out. they are still in! its doin my flippin head in. didnt think they would be that fragile. I mean the track77 are a single led and the old led lights i took out were a cluster of at least 20 leds. I'm thinking of changing the relay to a led relay, that should help, but I cant for the life of me find what resistace the resistor should have the only info i have is thats its a 12v 13w led.
I have multiple LED indicators on my RRW with a LED flasher relay. £13 off eBay. Never had a problem?
No mate the LED relay takes care of tungsten or LED indies. Must be electronics in there. Looks similar to original Honda tungsten relay as well!
You need the electronics box, and the 2 resistors for each track 77, they should be supplied by rizoma.
yeah, I bought it off Flea bay and no boxes or resistors, just bought a new one, its on its way, also bought a four way led relay to swap with the original one i have, bit worried that the other one will blow I'm guessing the electronics box is basicaly the same as the led relay, and once i get the resistor package with the new track77 i can measure the resistance and upgrade the side that doesnt have the original.
Try it on a reduced voltage first, 6 volt battery charger. Check it's wired right way around, LEDs are diodes, only work one way!
The value of the resistor should be 6Ohm8 and the wattage 25, they should be wired in parallel (across) the LED signals to load the flasher unit to reduce the flash rate thats all they do, to reduce the voltage you would have to wire them in series and these (normal load resistors) would be the wrong value, as MW says the electronic flasher unit flashes as a given rate regardless of the load but again has nothing to do with voltage.. Sorry if I am reposting what others have already said... I would say they are faulty and have been incorrectly wired inside as single SMD LED's are normally anywhere from 1.7v - 5v RAW..no use if directly wired to 12v as you have found out, not your fault but I would talk to who ever sold them to you..