Hi all, I tried to wire up the truck lite 4" LED tail light module in my Accord.

There are 5 wires in the OEM connectors but only 3 wires in truck lite (GND, tail, stop/turn). With trial and error, I wire up 90% working..

tail ok
stop ok
emergency flasher ok
turn signal: problem.. flashing too fast!

I remember reading somewhere that I need to put an inline resistor.. what value do I need to use?

thanks,

Ernest

The right way to fix turn light flashing too fast is to use a load insensitive flasher module. Hitadeer had to install that too in his Contour. Its maybe described on his homepage?

I'm trying to do the same retrofit, do you have any pics? Did you do all 6 of the tail lights?

hitadeer homepage is down?

http://www.2seetimeout.com/LEDretrofit.htm

This is the LED module I use:

oh.. where can I buy a load insensitive flasher module? Canadian Tire? Radio Shack?

found Josch's LED page.. but can't find reference to insensitive flasher:

http://josch.wilksfamily.com/LEDandMarker/LEDretrofit.htm

Attn Etam:
Goto this page: http://www.automotive-lighting.com/signal_flashers.html

Look at the flasher on the top listing. I used one similar to this one. You can find electronic flashers at any decent quality auto parts store. I've gotten them at autoparts stores, and at the Peterbuilt (semi-truck) dealer before. Yours will quit flashing fast once you get this type of flasher.

Thanks Josch! I am in Canada.. will hit local CanTire/Napa parts store later..

By the way, anyone know where is the flasher located in the car? Let me go and check the owner's manual..

Yeah, the Napa here in my local area had one once I remember.
By the way, my whole HID webpage and all lighting material has moved to: http://josch.wilksfamily.com

just brought a 3-prong flasher.. actually, still don't know if the accord take 3-prong or 2-prong...

My truck used a standard 2-prong flasher. My car on the other hand (Ford brand) used some special unit with the 3-prong configuration, BUT it just kept blowing fuses when I put the 3-prong flasher into the socket. Then I identified the correct prongs and made 2 (yes only 2 were necessary) little jumper wires to go from 2 prongs of the 3 prong SS flasher that I had bought (or a 2-prong flasher will work too) and the other end to 2 prongs of the original Ford socket. It wound up being the 2 OPPOSING terminals of the Ford socket on the car hooking up to one end terminal and the center terminal of the 3-prong SS flasher, and that's how I had to make that work. The 2-prong flasher you would just use the only 2 prongs (one prong's the input from the power source, and the other prong is the output to the turn signal switch- which then goes to the lights that the turn sig switch directs it to). But like I said, on my truck, the 2 prong flasher was plug-n-play all the way