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Old 05-13-2013, 12:14 AM
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Default LEDs burning out in the marker lights.

So I went ahead and replaced all my marker lights and the front parking lights with LEDs all in 6000k and canbus enabled. Yesterday two of them burned out at the same time and today I switched back to the regular 194 bulbs. This sucks because I really want to keep LEDs in the marker lights and have the 6000k temp ranges for the front parking lights especially.

How can I get these to NOT burn out and stay working for a long time? I read around the forum as much as I could and some said resistors help, but some said they didnt. I also read that voltage regulators is what I should be looking for.

My question is, how would I go about putting the regulators on the LEDs?

For reference, these are the LEDs I had in all the markers, and 2 went out in less than 2 months, yesterday.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...se-tower/1127/
Even though they are canbus, could it be the open ended design of the base of the LEDs that killed em? Would I need to get the same ones but with the sealed plastic base like these: http://www.superlumination.com/image..._6led_w_wm.jpg
or maybe this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2PC-7000K-PU...946#vi-content

The link above, would that make more sense to use in the parking lights? It's a sealed unit all together.



EDIT: Also, which CANBUS leds did you guys have good luck with in terms of actually lasting a long time with no issues??
 

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