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Review on πŸ”Œ iJDMTOY EP27 FL27 Electronic LED Flasher Relay: Fix Hyper Flash with 5-Pin LED Turn Signal Bulbs by Greg Anderson

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Great Way to Fix Fast Blink!

It worked as expected! Many people who retrofit LED lighting to their cars and trucks end up putting in a pull-up resistor to trick the factory turn signal relay into thinking it's a regular bulb. You don't have to cut the electrical wires in the car, you just install an electronic turn signal instead of a regular turn signal. A little information for you on the flasher relay concept: The original relays use a bimetal relay contact inside, which when the load (bulb) is switched on causes the metal to heat up and bend in the process, causing the relay to trip. Open or close depending on the type. If you install an LED light bulb, the power consumption is 1/8 that of an incandescent bulb, so the relay opens and closes very quickly (like a fast blinking turn signal). With an electronic alarm relay, the time it takes for the relay to open/close is controlled by a timer chip, which is set to a specific time regardless of the load, so the LED lamp flashes at a constant rate. After all, those load resistors that you buy and plug into the electrical wire basically make the relay see a normal load and make it work. The downside is that the LED bulb uses 1/8th the energy than a regular incandescent bulb (which is good). , but with that load resistor you add a low power LED + resistor and again you can use the same if not more power than you used with the incandescent bulb. In short, this is the best way to fix fast blinking when switching to LED turn signals!

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