Do we have a canbus system? o.O Options

[rentaspace]

Well, I am not quite sure....
In my experiences with my LEDs EVERY time I have bought non Cbus LEDs they have started flickering and flashing after a few months, some even straight away....
About 2 months ago I decided to just check out the Cbus versions of the same LEDs and to my surprise not one has started flashing yet...


So this leads to my question, is it remotely possible that the 6th Gen Celica (Or maybe even the ADM version) has a canbus system? or have I just had a statistical anomaly lol

[rentaspace]

Well all the LEDs that I have, small and large have some form of resistor.
The CANbus LEDs have an electronic resistor and the others just have your standard ceramic (or whatever it is) resistor...


Either way, I am probably going to look into making it myself, I am just so lazy when I have nothing to do and then the rest busy hahaha

[Box]

Well all the LEDs that I have, small and large have some form of resistor.
The CANbus LEDs have an electronic resistor and the others just have your standard ceramic (or whatever it is) resistor...


Either way, I am probably going to look into making it myself, I am just so lazy when I have nothing to do and then the rest busy hahaha

They must not be the proper value then. Which most bulbs in cars are 12V, so why they wouldn't go ahead and have the value set for that I'd never know. Worst case scenario the LEDs aren't quite as bright if they were plugged into a 9V (don't even know what car would, but still) harness.

It really is worth making your own, you save so much money. That and you can arrange them in ways that it better fits the application at hand.

[rentaspace]

Yeah mate, passenger side door keeps doin it to every LED i put in there. Only that socket though, 2 LEDs so far, flicker like a disco

Well all the LEDs that I have, small and large have some form of resistor.
The CANbus LEDs have an electronic resistor and the others just have your standard ceramic (or whatever it is) resistor...


Either way, I am probably going to look into making it myself, I am just so lazy when I have nothing to do and then the rest busy hahaha

They must not be the proper value then. Which most bulbs in cars are 12V, so why they wouldn't go ahead and have the value set for that I'd never know. Worst case scenario the LEDs aren't quite as bright if they were plugged into a 9V (don't even know what car would, but still) harness.

It really is worth making your own, you save so much money. That and you can arrange them in ways that it better fits the application at hand.

Actually I think there are two things that can cause this:
1) The surge of power when the car is turned on
2) The heat generated by the resistor which is then trapped by the plastic shroud.

Now looking over my old blown bulbs, it seems that the plastic shroud that covers the resistor actually causes the resistor to overheat and eventually fail.
Now, to try and figure this out, I went and looked in the inside of some of my old broken LEDs, and sure enough the inside of the shroud was discoloured, as if it had been heated up and when looking at the resistor it too had slightly singed.
So to rectify this, I would probably start disassembling the LEDs from the shroud so that they do not overheat.


Obviously again the cheapest method is to make them yourself as you suggested

I might start looking into it pretty soon as I am increasingly becoming more bored when I am not at work

Also, I am not sure about this as I have never measured the voltages with the car running, but once the engine is producing the power, doesn't it produce 13.9v or something like that, this could also explain why >.<

I read the topic and for some reason I thought this:

This is probably what they were thinking when the named it canbus lol

This post has been edited by rentaspace: Aug 11, 2013 - 5:35 AM