[alfa] brake light upgrade

[George Beston <gbeston@xxxxxxxx>]

The first time I saw led bulbs I got a big case of gadget fever and 
bought bulbs for the tail lights of my round tail spider.

What a disaster!  The tail and brake lights showed up as small circles 
within the lens.  The circles were fairly bright,  but only if observed 
from directly behind.  The directional signal bulbs blinked extremely 
quickly due to their low resistance, and were barely visible from any 
direction.

I didn't even attempt to add resistance for the directional signals 
because the bulbs point off to the side under the lens.  This works 
fine with the relatively non-directional conventional bulbs, but is 
utterly useless with the very directional led bulbs.

Ironically, the Wix Tech web site 
http://www.wixtools.com/html/led_lighting.html  provided in one of the 
posts contains a good solution to the need for brighter tail / stop  
lights, and that is halogen 1157 replacement bulbs.

I feel another case of gadget fever coming on...

George Beston
Alfetta
Spider Jr.
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