Hey folks,
New to the forum here and have a question I'm hoping someone can answer. I have a couple of LED turn signals that I bought, these babies are a strip of LEDs that roll from one side to the other which looks pretty wicked on my motorcycle. Only thing is the flasher cuts the power to the strips a bit too early which throws their sequence off every third or so flash. I was thinking of installing a capacitor in series with the source power to extend the length of time power was applied to the strips to correct this.
Firstly, would this be an incorrect approach to this, given that the capacitor may interrupt the power during charge-up and negate the effect I'm looking for?
Secondly, if the answer to the first question is "no", what formula would I need to use to determine what size of capacitor I would need to extend the power being provided to the LED strip?
Any guidance appreciated here.
Randy
New to the forum here and have a question I'm hoping someone can answer. I have a couple of LED turn signals that I bought, these babies are a strip of LEDs that roll from one side to the other which looks pretty wicked on my motorcycle. Only thing is the flasher cuts the power to the strips a bit too early which throws their sequence off every third or so flash. I was thinking of installing a capacitor in series with the source power to extend the length of time power was applied to the strips to correct this.
Firstly, would this be an incorrect approach to this, given that the capacitor may interrupt the power during charge-up and negate the effect I'm looking for?
Secondly, if the answer to the first question is "no", what formula would I need to use to determine what size of capacitor I would need to extend the power being provided to the LED strip?
Any guidance appreciated here.
Randy