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Old 2005-07-13, 04:04 PM   #6
sperry
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Originally Posted by Dean
If you read that page I linked to, you will see that hooking up LEDS in parallel is not a good option. One with slightly lower internal resistance will take more of the juice, making the others dimmer, and shortening it's life, and when it goes, the rest will be taking more than there share of voltage and you cascade into darkness.
Sound's legit... but I didn't have any issues w/ mine for the few months they were installed.

'Course, they looked like ass anyway because the reflectors in the gauges are designed for bulbs, which is what I promptly returned to using... so I didn't really get to test the longevity of the LEDs.
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