WHY DO MY BLINKERS FLASH FAST WHEN INSTALLING AN LED BULB?

Why do my blinkers flash fast when installing an LED bulb?

 

If your blinkers flash fast when installing an LED bulb, your vehicle has a flasher module that expects to see an incandescent bulb attached to it and when it doesn't detect what is normally there it will blink fast to tell you a bulb has burnt out.
 
With an LED bulb, that same flasher always thinks a bulb is burnt out, so you need to trick it into thinking there is nothing wrong. We can do this by installing a load equalizing resistor.

 

We created this instructional video to demonstrate the installation of resistors:

 


 

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