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Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Posts: 4,499
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I use not only LED taillights in a fiberglass RSR configuration and the stock CHMSL for cars later than mine ('83 SC) but most important a pair of motorcycle LED brakelight units--total of eight bulbs, four in each--that are mounted under the center bottom side of the tail. They are totally self-contained, no wiring, being powered by wafer batteries of the kind you find in some cameras. They are activated by the movement of a dollop of mercury inside each unit, and they can be adjusted (via mounting angle) to come on literally nanosecond-instantly when you brake--far faster than any conventional switch could react--and they flash in a jittering, back-and-forth pulsation. Superbright from directly behind (which is all I care about) and the batteries seem to last somewhere between six months and a year. I mount them with small pieces of industrial-strength Velcro, so I can remove them whenever I have the hatch open for awhile to do engine work.
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Stephan Wilkinson
'83 911SC Gold-Plated Porsche
'04 replacement Boxster
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