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Old 10th October 2020, 08:38 PM
ainarssems ainarssems is offline
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I bough 500 LED pack from Amazon back in January https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 , got the 500 pack as that was in UK available for next day delivery but did not get to change them until end of July. At this time more than half of LEDs were not working on the drivers side wing light so I changed all of the LEDs in that light. At the time noticed that couple of yellow indicator LEDs were not working as well so ordered 50 pack from the same seller on Amazon as the 50 pack was on UK stock for yellow. Unfortunately they sent me red ones not yellow. Got a refund from Amazon and they told me to keep red ones. I then bought yellow on ebay. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5mm-Water...53.m2749.l2649

The red ones are indistinguishable from original on car when lit but they do not last. After about 3 weeks all on one PCB failed, I replaced again, after another 3 weeks another PCB failed, replaced again. 3 weeks later one PCB failed again. I have not measured the current, maybe they are driven a bit hard. I will test adding some 5W resistors to see how much resistance I can add without loosing brightness and see if it can help them last longer.

No problems with yellow ones yet but they are only on for short periods of time.
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