Raid LED taillights

[J@mes]

Thats a great customer service that.... well thought your engineering.... lol

Least it fixable with about £10 and 10mins of your time...

£5 IF that!

 

[J@mes]

It seams bizzare that an item can get "e mark" accreditation when its clearly not up to scratch!

the glowing problem obviously isnt a safety issue (as its E marked)... like i said before, it doesn't glow much (you can only just notice at night) but when u use the brake peddle the 3rd brake light in the spoiler still lights up VERY bright!

 

[J@mes]

Sorry to put you right J@mes but I didnt help that much, got bogged down at work and had to sit and watch while you figured it out! Cant take credit where its not due!!!!

well it was ur m8 then wasnt it?!

either way you helped me!

 

[slick]

£5 IF that!

Well i guess that depends on where you get them..

I found a site that sells them all wired up, just need to crimp the wires on...
and the resistor is in ceramics so remains cool, even after 30mins on the brake pedal... i tried it...and it was cool as when i first put it in...

 

[J@mes]

cool!

 

[Copra]

i got some at xmas and the middle brake light glows very dimly,

mark

 

[J@mes]

i got some at xmas and the middle brake light glows very dimly,

mark

well at least you know what to do now!

 

[Copra]

to be honest i knew what to do all along cos i read the threads when you were doing it but i just cant be asked.

plus ive sold the car now (just waiting its return from the garage) so if the new owner wants to he can

 

[stpete]

Post the link Slick??? pls!

 

[slick]

Post the link Slick??? pls!

As you wish...

Resistor for Raid lights

As i said, its about £10 all in, its USA based, but with the dollar to the pound conversion being to high you get it pretty cheap, takes about a week to arrive but they are ceramic incased so no real heat gets to the heat sink covers! Arrives with the scotch locks too pre coated with a die-electric grease in the slots!
I got two as been suggested, and all was fine, no light, no fault code and perfect operating lights!!

 

[J@mes]

the resistor looks just like mine!

i used thick wire and scotch locks too!

 

[slick]

Yep same resistor i think... did yours have a cermic insert in it...??

The ones i imported have thick wire already soldered and heat shrinked to the wire, the wire is pretty thick 10 gauge i think if my mermory serves me right!

 

[J@mes]

Yep same resistor i think... did yours have a cermic insert in it...??

The ones i imported have thick wire already soldered and heat shrinked to the wire, the wire is pretty thick 10 gauge i think if my mermory serves me right!

no idea if it has a ceramic insert?! but it has a heat-sink as you can see!


as for the wire, i found some spare wire from an old Hella fog light wiring kit, so used that... as you can see from the pic its thicker than the OE/raid wires!

 

[slick]

Also better to be safe than sorry, so bigger wire it wiser!

 

[wilksy]

just bought a pair of raid led's n found that it doesnt wanna plug straight in.
is this normal or have i got the wrong units?
i did get these direct from raidhp website.

 

[stpete]

Each 50w resistor is only sinking 2.4 ish amps should not get too hot! thats about 34.5 watts!

 

[arge]

and how to do it!...

Hey, just about to apply the resistor to my raid rear lights.

Quick question, how did you figure out the resistance of the resistor needed ?

have seen some resistor kits on an auction site but they all seem to be 6ohm not 12.

ta

 

[Fl@pper]

just a thought about the resistor - what's it like spec wise for heat ?

have known ceramic ones in past get real hot and see thats got an ali housing - just wondered igf you'd had em more than finger warm in a minute ?

 

[J@mes]

Hey, just about to apply the resistor to my raid rear lights.

Quick question, how did you figure out the resistance of the resistor needed ?

have seen some resistor kits on an auction site but they all seem to be 6ohm not 12.

ta

someone on here worked it out with his friend who was a sparky from memory and I think he suggested using two resistors for safety... ie. only one is needed as i checked when i fitted the first one but decided to put the second one in as suggested for precaution!

just a thought about the resistor - what's it like spec wise for heat ?

have known ceramic ones in past get real hot and see thats got an ali housing - just wondered igf you'd had em more than finger warm in a minute ?

no sure but at the time i did touch them and they got warm, BUT only when you hold your foot on the brake peddle for a while! so its not an issue really... I simply use my hand brake more at traffic lights now just incase!

 

[Fl@pper]

lol as long as they don't get flash hot as in instant !!