LED taillight disappointment

What do you mean by 25 ct? 25 SMDs per bulb?!? What color bulbs are u using?

I was thinking of buying 2 red bulbs (9 SMD) from superbrightleds.com, for my tailights. I've compared the difference using only a 5 SMD (red) and it's slghtly brighter/redder, so I imagine 9 is plenty.

 

Lol I'm on my phone too, I'll check it out when I can. I'm curious to know the 25 arrangement, I can't get over how many that is!

I'm not sure what the dif between a smt and smd is, if there is one. You ought to try superbrightleds, I can vouch for their product. Their 9 SMD goes for $13 a piece. Yeah kinda pricey. That's why I'm holding off. Once I get my license plate bulbs in, I may change my mind.

 

K I found it- it's autolumination BTW.

Looks like 2 adjacent half bright smts (x4 vertically) per side, that may be the problem. There's jus too many small bulbs.

 

you're correct, 6 bulbs per side (6 x 4= 24 +1 = 25) duh.

If you're looking for alternatives and don't mind splurging, you should try the superbrightleds bulb, and let us know. The construction is really good.

 

Usually the issue has to do with shared voltage if its 2 contacts on the valve ballest

 

I didnt know that either. So is the difference noticeable with the LEDs? You should still post pictures. I'd love to see.

 

oooo the wait is killing me! no worries, whenever u can do it is fine haha.

 

I bought some bulbs from autolumination.com for the tail lights (red running lights). They were the EXACT same ones, the 25/26 LED tower ones, man were they bright red, they were great for about a week or two.

They overheated and melted and the company wouldn't do anything for me. They insisted that something else near the bulb created the heat and wouldn't stand behind their product.

I would not deal with that company again. In my opinion they suck.

I guess I should also state that I bought two more bulbs for the interior at the same time and haven't had problems with them. But they're only on for less than 2 minutes per day.

 

I concur with the above conclusion about autolumination. Also, they appear to be the same as superbrightbulbs.com as well. I've had issues with essentially EVERY LED bulb I've gotten from them. I've heard superbrightleds.com is supposed to be good. Actually, I had 5 LED bulbs from them in my Harley last year and never had a problem with them. I traded in and didn't keep the LEDs because I don't feel like doing that change with the new Harley.

Another site I'm giving a try is http://www.besthongkong.com/ but they seem to be having server issues at the moment. I have to pick up the bulbs from them from the post office this week (signature required). I've only been using the bulbs for my front parking lights, and have gone through 5 of them so far in the past year. Hopefully this place is better!

 

Yikes, thanks for the warnings guys. That makes me nervous to even try superbrightleds for my tails. I wonder why they burnt out/melted so quickly. I hope the license plate LEDs don't suffer the same way too.

BTW F8L, is that a picture of a wire and base literally mean that the bulbs melted/disintigrated???

 

Superbrightleds was OK for me. It's superbrightbulbs/autolumination that everyone seems to be having issues with. Give it a shot, get 2 bulbs and do a weekly walk behind to monitor them (should be doing this anyway, really).

I know, 2 companies with similar names creates a little confusion.