I just put led bulbs in my truck and since they are low voltage my car thinks all my bulbs are burned out, which in turn makes my lights blink annoyingly fast. I know you can get a resistor of some sort to put between the power and groudn wire to fix this problem, does anyone know what type of resistor I need? i am not smart when it comes to this so I need all the information on the resistor.
I saw this on this site
https://www.superbrightleds.com/1157.htm
LED brake/tail lamps may not work with some thermal flasher units due to their extremely low current draw. These installations will require an electronic flasher unit, available at your auto parts store. Try to find flashers designed to work with LED bulbs, often HEAVY DUTY flashers will
LED bulbs may cause some newer vehicles to indicate a bulb is burnt out (because of their low power consumption). Some cars indicate this by increasing the flash rate of the turn signals, some turn on a bad bulb indicator.This can be remedied with our Load Resistors wired across the turn signal bulbs to simulate a filament bulb load. We have these available by our LED turn signal bulbs in our online shopping cart
All you need is a heavy-duty/ variable load flashing unit, available at any parts store. Plug this in and your problems are gone. Works on my car after having the same problems.
I know a lot of the typical ricers are obsessed with the Hyperblinker mod, where you replace the resistor that controls flasher speed with a potentiometer....I suppose you could always use a bigger pot to slow it down, if you would rather get your hands dirty. But then again, load simulators are so much easier.