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Originally Posted by 67 Burb
When you can use the correct LED flasher that works, why go to all the trouble to install resistors or hidden standard bulbs. I should mention that the flashers that I use have to be grounded.
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The issue I see with installing resistors or alternate lights to induce a load in the system, is you have to know where you are installing them. If you install a resistor into the series portion of a series-parallel circuit and it goes bad, you lose some or all of the lights depending on where the load is located.
If it were installed in a parallel leg it would just take out whatever lights are on that leg.
Using the appropriate flasher, you bypass adding extra, unnecessary resistance (which adds heat, though, not really an issue with a low-current draw like LED's).