Veddy int-er-estink.

I've been thinking about starting an LED futures market, based on the number of LED keychain lights, truck and motorcycle taillights, flashlights and so forth that I've been seeing, and it occured to me that incandescent bulbs are going to disappear from cars with the possible exception of the headlights, and someday will disappear from our homes as well. Wanna buy stock in it? It'll be way different from Enron, I swear....&^)



So I saw the high-beam indicator problem as my chance to get with the times a bit, and also to avoid doing serious and needed work on my car. But, sigh, turns out there are these tiresomely simple ways to do the same thing; no rewiring, no trip to Radio Hut, no swearing and trying remold melted plastic, then planning a trip to the junkyard for more fixtures...all that shot down by the inglorious simple fix...&^)



One thing does puzzle me, which is that a regular diode has no trouble living in the current stream of my wiring, but an LED does.

Does an LED also limit current to one direction like a reg-lur diode?

And what makes them so vulnerable to current?

And thanks everyone for the idears.