03 tahoe LED dome light

[ajaxnxs]

And that's why I went to Marist!



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[Rivieraracing]

That's what Chauncey and I are discussing as well, and are wondering if adding a resistor to a LED bulb that's equivalent to the natural resistance of a regular bulb would solve the problem you guys are having!! I think Chauncey was going to ohm a regular bulb to find out the resistance of that bulb and find a resistor that is the same resistance and see if that works instead of adding an additional wire to each light to "up" the voltage!!
If you think about it, could you ask the same engineer what I just mentioned now and see what he thinks about that idea, curious on if he thinks that by adding a resistor to up the load needed to power the LED if that would work?

Man, oh man, does my newly discovered Harvard brain hurt right now!!! lol

 

[JochenWoern]

That's what Chauncey and I are discussing as well, and are wondering if adding a resistor to a LED bulb that's equivalent to the natural resistance of a regular bulb would solve the problem you guys are having!! I think Chauncey was going to ohm a regular bulb to find out the resistance of that bulb and find a resistor that is the same resistance and see if that works instead of adding an additional wire to each light to "up" the voltage!!
If you think about it, could you ask the same engineer what I just mentioned now and see what he thinks about that idea, curious on if he thinks that by adding a resistor to up the load needed to power the LED if that would work?

Man, oh man, does my newly discovered Harvard brain hurt right now!!! lol

Talk about the brain hurting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will inquire with the Engineer and will get back to you.

Thanks.

 

[ScottyBoy]

Has anyone measured the voltage yet when the lights are dim? I am suspecting its to do with the BCM. I know on a lot of GM vehicles, the BCM will "go to sleep" until it senses a door open or an electrical load. I wonder if that's the case here. If so, the BEST solution would be to simply reworked the 12v lead on each light to a constant fused 12v source.

 

[chauncey0337]

Has anyone measured the voltage yet when the lights are dim? I am suspecting its to do with the BCM. I know on a lot of GM vehicles, the BCM will "go to sleep" until it senses a door open or an electrical load. I wonder if that's the case here. If so, the BEST solution would be to simply reworked the 12v lead on each light to a constant fused 12v source.

Scott, read through the whole thread because Chris and I have already suggested that but neither of us have the problem and no one who does have that problem doesn't want to go through the 'trouble' of doing that.

 

[Rivieraracing]

Yeah Scott, if you get some free time (which you might need quite a bit of it when it comes to this thread), can you take a look at the whole thread and see if you can come up with anything else that we might have missed on getting a permanent fix!! We could use another Harvard electrical brain on this matter, hoping we can all figure this out so we can take this thread out back and put it out of it's misery!! lol

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Talk about the brain hurting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will inquire with the Engineer and will get back to you.

Thanks.

Yeah no joke, right? I have been dealing with migraine headaches ever since my car accident over a year ago and especially since my chiropractic and massage claim went out in Sept.!! Sometimes this thread brings them out in full force faster than normal!! hahaha

 

[BillBlatt18]

I will definitely try once I get home. I will try this weekend. I also am curious about the vanity thing. I will try mine but doubt it will work as I have leds in those too which are also dim

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[chauncey0337]

That's what Chauncey and I are discussing as well, and are wondering if adding a resistor to a LED bulb that's equivalent to the natural resistance of a regular bulb would solve the problem you guys are having!! I think Chauncey was going to ohm a regular bulb to find out the resistance of that bulb and find a resistor that is the same resistance and see if that works instead of adding an additional wire to each light to "up" the voltage!!
If you think about it, could you ask the same engineer what I just mentioned now and see what he thinks about that idea, curious on if he thinks that by adding a resistor to up the load needed to power the LED if that would work?

Man, oh man, does my newly discovered Harvard brain hurt right now!!! lol

Well last night I tried to locate one of my incandescent domes to measure the resistance and could not find one. So, just for kicks decided to measure one of the led domes and could not get a reading then remembered 'duh' an led IS a diode and switch the leads around and this time got a reading but could not get an accurate reading. But I did notice the leds lit up very dim when I tried to measure the resistance. I think it's time to get a new multi meter, I still have the analog one I got when I was in school, lol-

 

[JochenWoern]

Well last night I tried to locate one of my incandescent domes to measure the resistance and could not find one. So, just for kicks decided to measure one of the led domes and could not get a reading then remembered 'duh' an led IS a diode and switch the leads around and this time got a reading but could not get an accurate reading. But I did notice the leds lit up very dim when I tried to measure the resistance. I think it's time to get a new multi meter, I still have the analog one I got when I was in school, lol-

Well, at least you know how to read one of these darn things.

 

[chauncey0337]

Well, at least you know how to read one of these darn things.

Yeah, I think everybody else who knows how to read one is dead, lol.