I tried doing some research but could not find an answer as to what size resistor to use in order to keep the led bulbs from tripping the blown bulb sensor. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Not 194s... I have a 2001 Cavi... turn signals/corner lights are one bulb 3157 style led bulbs are what I have. A buddy and I tried playing around with the numbers but either we're doing the math wrong or have the wrong formula. The LED bulbs were reading 1.2M ohms of resistance and I believe the factory bulbs read 2 ohms. I haven't tested out the current draw yet but from my understanding of resistance, if I put a 2ohm resistor in parallel with the corner light, it should drop the resistance in the curcuit to ~2ohms but that didn't seem to work.
Conventional resistors won't work. It doesn't place enough of a load on the line to keep the hyperflashing from occurring.
Your 4 options are:
1) Get a flasher designed for LED's
2) Get load resistors which are designed for bulb-out suppression (6 ohm, 50w load resistors)
3) Wire a standard bulb in parallel with the LED bulb and have it tucked away somewhere
4) Go back to standard bulbs.
I'm using option 2 and have had no problems in the 3 years of running LED bulbs up front.
Yeah...I was starting to lean towards option three but was trying to avoid that. Thanks for the help, I'll probably pick up some load resistors tonight.
