Interior light.......????

MRTs300

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• Feb 28, 2015

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Ok what's wrong....... Lol.
Fitted some LED style lights in my interior light today which was easy and looked great. But....... Left the workshop in the dark and the LED light were glowing then went out then glowed again etc etc all the way up the road. The lights work as they should do but glow when I'm driving along.
Anyone got any ideas?.. I'm thinking bad earth or back feed voltage from something.

Pictures below.

 

daddy2coull

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• Feb 28, 2015

• #2

Ambient light, very classy

 

MRTs300

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• Feb 28, 2015

• #3

daddy2coull said:

Ambient light, very classy

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Would be classy if it was meant. :lol: it'd doing my head in. Can't leave the light on door opening setting or it will flatten my battery. Must get to the bottom of it.

 

666 george

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• Mar 1, 2015

• #4

Check to see if they still have power going to them when switched off. LED's don't need a lot.

 

Lowlight

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• Mar 1, 2015

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Power is getting to them somehow, I assume they have a permanent live and the pin switches give them an earth so they must be getting a partial earth from somewhere?

 

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mattlumley

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• Mar 1, 2015

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Possibly need a resistor in line to stop them glowing. Seen this on some other cars

 

300tditoy

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• Mar 2, 2015

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I fitted an led strip light in the back of mine, the same one mud uk sell, and when coupled up to the door switches via interior light that also glowed. Must be a landy thing. As said leds take next to nothing power wise to make them shine

 

ONE LIFE LIVE IT. D90

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• Mar 2, 2015

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I changed my festoons for LED replacements and mine do exactly the same.

I'm sure someone said it's the switches on the doors not working properly.

 

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satchmolips

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• Mar 2, 2015

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On the old style light I woke up to mine having been on all night. It was condensation above it causing an earth. Fitted a piece of rubber above it between headlining and roof and been fine since

 

zeaphod

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• Mar 2, 2015

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Something else is using the interior light feed as an earth path. Have a look and see if anything else comes off the same fuse. Might be easier to just fit a resistor in series with the light feed.