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Old 01-27-2012, 12:06 AM   #3 (permalink)
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The little push in bulbs look like the ones they call 194 bulb in the US.
If so, the original 194 bulb pulls around 280 mA of current. The LED version should draw only about 15mA. So how ever many your car has (my car only had two of these for the rear side markers) you can calculate the savings.

The other larger bulb (1156) with the round base and 24 LEDs in a bulb,well it stated on the ebay ad less than a watt so that's probably around 80mA vs the original bulb's current draw which I'm just guessing around 2 amps. (brake light bulb?)

I only had an 1141 bulb to test and it pulled 1400mA (1.4A).

I saved a total of 3.6A just when my parking lights are on between tag lights,tail lights,rear side markers,and front corner lights converted to LEDs.
I also did my brake lights, (3rd brake light included),trunk light,interior dome light too.
Leaving the turn signals alone as they are not on enough to justify the efforts for me. Even though I do have an electronic flasher needed to blink LEDs.
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