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Festoon Bulb?


Texasguy

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In my 98 SS VLX I have bulbs in the dome type lights under the passenger dash etc that are not the festoon style with the pointed ends. These have blunt ends with a loop wire on each end. Does anyone know what these are called and might there be colored LED replacement bulbs for this style?

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Remember when you put them in that LED's are polarized. They will only work if you put then in one way, not both ways like normal bulbs.

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Remember when you put them in that LED's are polarized. They will only work if you put then in one way, not both ways like normal bulbs.

I have put them in my boat and found them to work either direction. Can anyone explain that?

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Remember when you put them in that LED's are polarized. They will only work if you put then in one way, not both ways like normal bulbs.

I have put them in my boat and found them to work either direction. Can anyone explain that?

I just assumed that they would only work one way since they were LED's. I guess they do work both ways then.

My Bad :(

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I bought the bulbs from superbrightleds.com as suggested by Wakegirl, she also mentioned polarity sensitivity but mine worked both ways.

Any one care to guess what the regular bulb verse the 9 led festoon amp draw compares at? I know the 4410 led bulb draws 85ma in the red color and 75ma in white but don't know what the old stock bulbs draw?

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Wakegirl

Knowing that yours only worked 1 direction, I thought I was getting very lucky when I placed 4 out of 7 and got them all right on the 1st try. Just for kicks, I pulled 1 back out and flipped it around and it still worked. Go figure! I also bought the 1156-pcb-r36 red LED lamps for the rear corner vent areas but have not wired them yet. You mentioned that yours were not very bright so I figured I would try 36 LED in each corner and see what that looks like.

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The ones I got just recently as well would only work one direction like Tracies. Another thing also is that I had the one with the hooks as well but ordered the regular ones cause I didn't even think to look before I bought em. Doesn't matter cause they work just the same but now I want more.....so I'll get more.

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