Hiya Rollaclubbers,

 

I have a bit of a problem and need some light shed on the matter, so many thanks in advance!

 

okey doke, the storey so far................

 

 

The other week my missus had broken the front indicator lense on her car, and with the car being made in the dark ages its very hard to track down a replacment, so i decided to purchase a L.e.d. indicator/park light assembly(s) through TJM, once i had hooked them up, (mind you every thing works as its suppose to), i have now got a static problem occuring through the radio..........................

 

Meaning- When the radio is on in the car, i turn the park lights on, and static is all that can be heard from the speakers,

- And the same occurs when the indicators are in operation............................?

 

 

These symtoms have only occured once fitting the led lights, the problem wasn't there before.

 

Things i have done,

 

-earthed out all the lights direct to the chassis

-rewired the stereo directly to the battery

-replaced the stereo earth with a heavier guage wire.

 

I'm buggered to know what it may be?

 

I even wen't down to jaycar and explained the problem to a staff member, he gave me a response as if i was coming down off a hit of cocaine or something, ha ha. Surely i'm not the first to have this problem, if anyone has a solution to this, i'm all ears!!!

 

 

cheers,

 

clapped out!!!

Theres a couple of different typres of bulbs, some have some sort of 'choke/capacitor' thing built in to them to cancel out the interference.

Sounds like the ones you got don't have this built in. Try another kind or go back to bulbs.

Could you not wire a capacitor in?

Sorry if this sounds dumb, when you say capacitor, are you meaning on the positive to the stereo or on the lights themselves? I have tried a secondhand suppressor on the stereo but to no avail.

 

B.L.Z., i would go back to bulbs although i can't even find a half decent lense to replace the originals with, if push comes to shove i may have to find alternate led's.

 

cheers!

An internal capacitor in the bulbs. Its a pretty common problem with LEDs supposedly.