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Don't have my Maverick yet, been reading about people changing bulbs. Why?
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Hyperflash - what is it?
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LEDs are brighter, (in theory) last longer than incandescent, illuminate faster, and allow for dual color lighting like in the turn signals being normally white and then amber when active (switchback).
With old-style electromechanical flasher relays when a bulb burns out so the circuit draw is reduced the flasher relay cycles faster (hyperflash). Modern electronically controlled lighting modules may not inherently do that however it is useful to indicate to the driver that a signal bulb is burned out. So if they detect less draw than expected they will flash faster and/or display a message that a bulb is burned out.
LEDs can draw much less wattage than an incandescent bulb so installing one on monitored circuits can trigger hyperflash, bulb out warnings, or other unintended behavior. Utilities like Forscan can reconfigure the computer to ignore that. Or you can add load resistors to compensate. Or some LEDs have resistors built into them to present additional load; commonly referred to as CANBUS compatible bulbs. Bulbs with resistors sometimes aren't ideal because now you need to mitigate 15W+ of thermal energy in a small area. They might have warnings not to use them in applications with a duty cycle greater than a certain amount of time lest they overheat.
With old-style electromechanical flasher relays when a bulb burns out so the circuit draw is reduced the flasher relay cycles faster (hyperflash). Modern electronically controlled lighting modules may not inherently do that however it is useful to indicate to the driver that a signal bulb is burned out. So if they detect less draw than expected they will flash faster and/or display a message that a bulb is burned out.
LEDs can draw much less wattage than an incandescent bulb so installing one on monitored circuits can trigger hyperflash, bulb out warnings, or other unintended behavior. Utilities like Forscan can reconfigure the computer to ignore that. Or you can add load resistors to compensate. Or some LEDs have resistors built into them to present additional load; commonly referred to as CANBUS compatible bulbs. Bulbs with resistors sometimes aren't ideal because now you need to mitigate 15W+ of thermal energy in a small area. They might have warnings not to use them in applications with a duty cycle greater than a certain amount of time lest they overheat.
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Excellent explanation. Plus you threw in a "switchback" explanation too.
Now I know why I'm buying those bulbs, if and when my Maverick gets here.
Now I know why I'm buying those bulbs, if and when my Maverick gets here.
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