[ale] More on LEDs...

Doug Hall doughalldev at gmail.com
Fri Aug 16 22:24:00 EDT 2013


Great comments, guys. Learning a lot about power and lights that I'd have
never learned if we always stayed [ON] topic (Linux).


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:34 PM, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:

> On Friday 16 August 2013, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> > It has a combined brake light and tail light which uses a dual filament
> > bulb, an 1157.  I found the 1157R led bulb at autozone and put it in the
> > car.
>
> Ah, was not aware they were making retrofit LEDs! Will look next time I'm
> in
> a parts store for LED tag lights. Unlikely to have the lensing problem you
> noted with tail lights so the longer life (and gradual failure if the
> individual LEDs do not fail at the same time) would make this an ideal
> application.
>
> Anyone who drives an older car at night will know why this is important:)
> --
> William
>
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