I installed some led tailights the other day and they didnt work at all, i removed them put the old incandescents back in and both work fine. I then took one out and bent the contacts outwards and put the le back in and it works fine for driving lights but then the brake light partdoesnt work. But then when i put the other led in both dont work, but if its one of each the both work and only the incandescents work as brake lights.

Why is this and how can i fix it.

Cheers fr any help you can give me i know mst are trying to relax about now.

The led's would be single element/circuit. Thus you cant have both.

hes got duel contact stop/tails like i got

josh just make sure the contacts in the the taillight are reaching the base of the bayonette

Okay, so i check that they are touching the contacts and one was and one wasnt, so i made them touch, it works as a tailight but now when i put the brakes on it goes completely off?

What does this mean

I was thinking of putting LED's onto the bugeye, I think of lots of things to do to it but they don't call me "guna" for nothing , an auto electrician told me I had to add some other part or make some other mods to the electrics to make them work, I stopped listening about then as it sounded like more trouble than I was prepared to get into.

Im in need of any help, any ideas, ive got two incandescents in there now any they are working fine, what would be causeing this problem?

ahh make your own , just go to one of those leco shops . like dick smith etc and buy little led separate

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Originally posted by donn I was thinking of putting LED's onto the bugeye, I think of lots of things to do to it but they don't call me "guna" for nothing , an auto electrician told me I had to add some other part or make some other mods to the electrics to make them work, I stopped listening about then as it sounded like more trouble than I was prepared to get into.

Okay, so now ive got the contacts bent out so that its near beaking the bulbs trying to get them in.

Now i have one incandescent in and it works fine on its own but then i will put the led in the other side and then the incandescent one get brighter because the brake light is on but no one is pushing on the brake pedal.
And the led still doesnt come on and ive taken it out and tried 180degrees around and same thing happens?

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Originally posted by ian.mezz some el cheapos led just don't work. A good one you'd pay about $30 each. and they dont seem to even have a brighter light

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Hi Joel,

I used 10mm bright white LEDs 12v DC [resistor in leads]
[bought from Hong Kong via E-bay]
in My speedo...
they just fit in perfectly...

the only bulb I'm using is the Alternator bulb as the alternator needs the bulb to work...

I was thinking of using an LED in there and just putting a bulb in the engine bay...

LEDs are Light Emitting Diodes so Use one for the blinker indicator lamp..
May need a resistor in series as it is VERY BRIGHT... lol

I just bought a couple of LED lights..
round about big as a 20 cent piece with two wires coming off them.. about 20 LEDs on them.. 12volts DC..
could be used in lots of places...

Lee

PS: I put blue LED bulbs in first but couldn't read the speedo at night.. lol.. the plain white LEDs are much brighter..
these Bright White LEDs do have a blueish light... as do all white LEDs..

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I wouldn't waste my money on Leds as a normal globe has been ok for years and they cost about 30 cents each
They are ok for new cars and lens like Joels with clear lens covers the car makers saved money by using the cheap thin lens cover and just a coloured globe..

you know i like shiny things

it was an electrical load thing as well for me
LEDs use 1/10th the power of the equivelent bulb so by the time the whole car is swapped over it makes a hell of a difference

My globes dont have offset pins,

will check the eraths now

its alos an electrical load thign for me, not a cooler look.

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Originally posted by Joel you know i like shiny things it was an electrical load thing as well for me LEDs use 1/10th the power of the equivelent bulb so by the time the whole car is swapped over it makes a hell of a difference

Im now believing that the globs are faulty cause like ian pointed out the old ones work fine.

Okay, so ive looked on the net and it seems that leds with offset pins are bay15d, while ba15d are the ones with the same level pins.

I have got ba15d's, do i need bay15d's.

And what gobes is in the numberplte housing?

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Originally posted by ian.mezz Its good to see that you are doing your bit for the world by saving power

Okay then ive got the rong ones, these are the ones ive got.



I will get those ones i need asap.

thats why your having dramas, that one earths through one of the bottom contacts not the outter base part

got me stuffed what those ones would be used in

maybe positive ground pommy cars or something whacked

Yeah now i see that,oh well, will be checking that out before i do that again.

Ive ordered new ones so should be all good.

Just gotta find some for the speedo