Light question please help.

[kjsamm]

Your trying to explain a misconception to an electronic engineer

I already explained how it is...without resistance an led won't last a minute

If that's the case then please Mr. Engineer, explain to me how I am running LED flashers w/o a resistor.

[Killer2600]

If that's the case then please Mr. Engineer, explain to me how I am running LED flashers w/o a resistor.

The resistor would built in to the LED assembly itself to form a bulb that you plug in, a plain jane led is small to miniature in size and requires soldering for installation.

The resistor isn't for the flasher, it's to limit the amp draw the led pulls and subsequently controls the brightness of the led. LED's have very low resistance and if hooked up to a power source without any current limiting device (resistor/resistance) in the circuit they will pull enough power to burn them up in an instant.

Again I repeat the resistor isn't for the flasher. The resistor that you wire up when the lights don't flash is a different and separate resistor that's much larger in size and has a completely different purpose and isn't always needed or used.

[kjsamm]

There is the problem....we are on two different pages and talking about seperate issues. I apologize