<VV> LED lights for the rear.

[J R Read]

I have no experience with the bulb you mention, but if it is an 1157, it has 
to have the bayonets in the right spots to fit the 1157 socket on the car. 
An 1157 is a two filament bulb (tail light and stop light) and the bayonets 
are there so that it is installed correctly for each filament to function 
for the designed in purpose.

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron" <ronh at owt.com>
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<jvhroberts at aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> LED lights for the rear.


> Does anyone on this list have any experience with the brighter 1157's 
> from:
> http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/tail-brake-turn/
> Will these bulbs fit in the Corvait taillight housing?
> RonH
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <jvhroberts at aol.com>
> To: <jay.pitchford at gmail.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:20 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> LED lights for the rear.
>
>
>>
>> For more info on production taillight bulbs, see:
>>
>> http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/lights/signal_bulbs/signal_bulbs.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> John Roberts
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jay Pitchford <jay.pitchford at gmail.com>
>> To: Virtual Vairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>> Sent: Thu, May 16, 2013 7:25 am
>> Subject: Re: <VV> LED lights for the rear.
>>
>>
>> Mike - Clark's sells pretty good incandescents that are brighter 1157
>> replacements. I too want to upgrade to LEDs, but the brighter 1157s are a
>> good temporary fix until Seth's tech article is published.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:02 AM, <Sethracer at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Mike
>>> If you don't care about how much light you want, it is not a problem. 
>>> The
>>> design of the socket aims the LED at an angle so that limits the output.
>>> There  is no good easy, simple, cheap solution.  I was never able to get
>>> the
>>> Southern California company to come up with a reasonable price on a plug
>>> in
>>> lens/LED, but this new design is close. Cost is about $55 in parts and a
>>> bit of work on your part. But it is bright - 24 LEDs aimed straight to
>>> the
>>> rear at the stock lens. I installed one on a car and we experimented 
>>> with
>>> the
>>> brake lights. The LED side definitely came on sooner than the
>>> incandescent
>>> side.  It might save your butt if someone was following too close. It is
>>> also much  brighter, in both taillight and turn signal mode. I am 
>>> working
>>> on a
>>> tech article  to show "How to do it".  Drop me an E-mail directly and I
>>> will
>>> send you a  couple of photos on a set-up that works great and looks 
>>> stock
>>> from the outside.  PS - the first thing you will need is an extra pair 
>>> of
>>> tail light housings.  The big metal piece that the lens screws onto.
>>> Clean
>>> them
>>> up well and pick up a  set of the appropriate gaskets for the housing to
>>> body and the lens to housing  from Clarks. (That cost in not included in
>>> my
>>> $55 estimate)
>>>
>>> - Seth Emerson
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 5/15/2013 6:08:11 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>>> kovacsmj at yahoo.com writes:
>>>
>>> Does  anybody have a recommendation on what brand/type etc. of LED bulbs
>>> are easy to  just "plug in" to a LM tail light socket? This would be an
>>> easy
>>> substitute for  the 1157 bulb.
>>>
>>>
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