 What's happening guys? Thanks for tuning back in today. It's a nice lazy day out. It's fall falls upon us It's hoodie sweatshirt weather. I absolutely love it, but today we're gonna be talking about LED lights and some resistors Whenever you guys change out LED lights, which most of you do and I definitely have We have that issue on the turn signals where the flasher turns fast So today I'm gonna be talking about why that happens and how to remedy that for your truck First I want to give a shout out to Greg a he's got his own YouTube channel He's a lot bigger than I am, but he gives out some really awesome Shirts over here. He's got this wrench works brand. They're really comfortable. The sweatshirts are like super super high quality I know a lot of other places you get their Merchandise and they get something that's just printed on there, and it's kind of a shitty shirt And it only lasts like two months. Maybe if that this is probably one of the first sets of actual like youtuber You know precision whatever shirts that they put out that is an actual nice Hoodie sweatshirt. They got that they've got hats a couple other things So just big shout out to him for actually putting out good merchandise for his followers But anyways today, we're gonna be talking about LEDs I've put LEDs in the truck already, but I I don't really like the turn signals that I do have already They do have the flash fast going on on the truck So I'm gonna be talking about doing some resistors. I picked up these resistors right off at eBay I'll put the part down in the description below and So you guys be able to get those they're really cheap really inexpensive. They're like 20 bucks for a pair of them And you know it's something that's really easy to do as I will show you here in a little bit But I also got some different LEDs for my turn signals I had held off on that for a little while and then eventually switched over to them But these are the ones that I went with they were JDMA star 1260 lumen turn signal bulbs I think they're gonna turn out a lot better the ones that I have in there right now They're just cheap like $14 ones that you can get from AutoZone. I was just In that mood one day cruising through AutoZone and they had those there So I went with them and now my turn signals flash fast. So why does that happen? So in these GM vehicles at least I can't say that for all vehicles, but in these GM vehicles at least they have a module in there that detects the Resistance of the bulbs that you have in there. So normal, you know filament bulbs They draw so much ohms of resistance and then as everybody knows LEDs draw a whole lot less power less Amperage so they're gonna produce a lot less resistance on the circuit. So when the amount of power goes through those standard bulbs the Flasher is able to see that. Okay. They are Drawing the correct amount of resistance. So they flash normally. So on the older vehicles That's how they tell you if a bulb is out if one of the front bulbs is out if it's reading an incorrect resistance It starts to flash fast on some of the Chevy's if the rear bulb is out It just you turn your turn signal on and it just holds on So that's how it's able to tell you if you have a front or a rear one out now the new ones They're all module controlled so they have lamp out indicators in the body control module They're able to you know tell the resistance of where the Bulb is out at to be able to tell you but in this older vehicle It's not like that. So we're gonna get down to our turn signals And we're gonna show you how to put these resistors in and what they are So here's our front end and we've all had this thing apart a million times. So we're just gonna fast forward So we'll just pop these out real quick. So these are the ones that I have gotten off of Just auto zone, you know, just cheat Zevo. I think it's the brand So these they have a different resistance than the newer bulbs. So in line we have These new style resistors there are two plugs to it You have a female and a male the male part of it plugs directly into your existing socket The female is what the new style LED plugs into and then it's going to create a more of a resistance which will Tell pretty much fool the the flashery into saying, okay This thing has a normal resistance bulb in it and the bulb is not out So the flasher won't have to flash fast. So normally a standard filament bulb has about six and a half ohms of resistance and These less amperage so they have a lot less resistance to what will make these lights actually light up So I'm gonna go grab an o-meter and show you guys what so this may be kind of hard to show But I'm gonna have to do this with as many hands as I can here So I'm gonna check the resistance of a standard bulb forums or resistance So the ones that I Had picked out they've got the direct plug-in and they're like eight ohms of resistance. So When we check the resistance on this one Maybe I can get a good connection here. Go go gadget fingers. There we are It's a ground one and we have No resistance on that one. So we have eight and a half ohms of resistance on that circuit So that's I'm trying to just kind of hoping that this will work out They have direct wire in ones that are three and a half to four ohm resistance But I think this will do the trick. They also have heat fins to be to Relieve some of the heat in the wiring for the resistors as well So we're gonna hopefully see that this will work If not, I'll just have to get the wire in ones But these were just easier to plug in and that's what I found was a cheaper solution So this will be the one that I had plugged in before to show you how it was flashing fast There we go flashing fast and to show you the reason why I was replacing this one is When you look at the front of it, it doesn't have a light that actually shines outwards So with the smoke beams, they just were with the smoke lamps. It just didn't have enough out light output for me Yes, it is bright and everything but off to the sides. So facing LED filament to it as well. So now we'll see what it's like with the new bulb plugged in with the resistor so then here is with the resistor plugged in just standard to the female plug and then our New LED light it's got it's really bright 1260 lumens worth It's got three different sides of the LED lights with six LED filaments in each of those And then also pointing out the top with three LED filaments Facing out of those so this light is going to be quite a bit brighter I think those cheap ones. I got it auto zone were rated like I want to say like five or six hundred lumens And this one's rated at 12. Put this one into the housing Notice I do have the smoked housing still and we're gonna tell the lumens difference between this one and the kind that you Get at auto zone as well So I was wondering what it would do this one is plugged in with the resistor and then this one still has the standard bulb And I was wondering what it would do with the flashers But evidently just having one bulb out will not cause the flashers to flash fast Something I didn't know something you can learn today, but let's see how bright they are comparatively the new one and our old one These are both LEDs. Well, like I said that one doesn't have a forward-facing Bit to it and then this one does I'm a lot more impressed with that one. I like that one. How much brighter it's gonna be I think that's more the look that I'm going with One other quick little easy side note is the resistor when you put that one in The female that plugs into the or the male that plugs into the existing female socket It's just gonna be hanging out there So make sure you fill that thing with dielectric grease because it still is out in the elements We don't want that thing getting all corroded and filled with just nonsense and gunk Zip tie up what you don't have so everything in the resistors aren't banging around, you know Just zip time up nice So you have that thing a little bit more clean and it's gonna have less Rust and corrosion down the road. Well, I hope you guys learned a little bit of something today I know I did with the flashers at least and it's been a fun little trip and Make sure you guys check me out over on Instagram I've got a whole bunch of stuff that I post like every other day right there with the truck with tool stuff some of the new Organizing things that I've gotten and I've gotten a whole lot of comments running a new toolbox tour of my new toolbox And it is coming. I promise I've just got a bunch going on in my life right now And I'm just kind of waiting on a couple more organizer things. I want that box to be Tip top up to shape to be able to show you guys how awesome it really is gonna be when I get done with it I'm gonna go over with my computer set up in it as well. So big things are coming with that one I've got a couple more things come with the truck I think I've decided that I'm gonna do a full headlight build this winter also cut these things apart show you how they separate put some LEDs Halo's in it as well Just something fun new and different to do you don't see that too very you know all that often here on YouTube So that's about all I got today. Thanks for tuning in and you guys stay awesome