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Do you know if doing this will disable the cruise control?

 

not as long as you do all six i did just the bottom four and the cruz did not work but with all six it worked fine ....dave

 

What about using LEDs for the front amber lights? Same replacement bulb (except in amber)? How many bulbs? All the same, or is there a mix of bulbs?

Cannot find this in owner's manual.

 

I ordered (on eBay) 3 sets of these for the rear tail lamps.

What about the front turn signal lamps? Are these the right ones? How many are needed?

 

Why use red bulbs when the lense is red. Seems it would be brighter to use a white bulb and let the lense convert to red? SP

 

Actually, the best practice is to use the same color lamp as the lens. I am not sure, but this may be due to transmission of light (energy) of the same wavelength/color. I would have to go back to my physics class for a better explanation. ;-)

 

Most cars employ clear bulbs in the tail lights. Right?

 

That's because the white hot filaments only give off white light. There is no way to get an incandescent bulb that glows red. LED's can be made to give off light in any color by changing the chemicals used to make it. Even though the LED's are not as bright, they are more efficient when placed behind a red lens. Red lenses make white bulbs look red by stopping all the other colors. That wastes the power used to make the colors.

The below is extracted from:
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/Phys/Class/light/u12l2c.html

Transparent materials are materials which allow one or more of the frequencies of visible light to be transmitted through them; whatever color(s) is/are not transmitted by such objects, are typically absorbed by them. The appearance of a transparent object is dependent upon what color(s) of light is/are incident upon the object and what color(s) of light is/are transmitted through the object.

 

Would love to see some before / after pics of the tail lights from someone who made this change to LED's if available....

 

i know you can't change front and rear without load eq. blinkers won't blink it just buzzs..dave

 

Not correct. The flasher on the Vision is an electronic module which senses the amount of current draw and if it thinks it detects a bad bulb (less current) it starts to flash at 120 flashes per minute instead of 60, or about twice as fast. If you change ALL the bulbs to LED, it still flashes at 120FPM. With LED's this looks very nice and is very visible since the LED's snap on and off so fast. I actually prefer it and think it is more visible. If you just put in LED's without the equalizer you reduce the load on your alternator by 5 to 10 Amps, depending one the LED's you use. You can use the equalizers but you get a lot of heat trapped inside the fairing or fender well (since the equalizers just turn the extra power into heat to make the flasher happy) and the only advantage is the lights snap on and off quicker.

 

for me when i put in front also 39 led bulbs they would not flash the flasher would just buzz no flash at all went back to reg blubs in front works fine. dave

 

That's yet another odd thing on the Vision. I've been running all 10 lights (6 rear 4 front) as LEDs for about a year now and not had a bit of trouble. As with most electronic stuff, all you can really say is that given what we know, and assuming all things we know are correct, that shouldn't happen - but, since I've heard of several odd situations regarding the use of LED lights, there's obviously something the factory knows that we don't.