Flickering interior lights

[AnD3rew]

My D3 has just started this behaviour the interior lights above the rear view mirror at the front and the one in the rear cargo area just above the tailgate. I changed them to LED several months ago but they have been fine until a now.

Any ideas?

[Disco-tastic]

I've had the same with some LEDs. Its the SMD's dying, but im not sure what causes it. I've got some spare globes of a different type that have been fine that i swap back in.

[LandyAndy]

Interesting.
I just bought a Coleman camping light and a matching rechargeable battery pack.It flickers,says on the box it has a quality Cree LED.
Andrew

[l00kin4]

I've had the same with some LEDs. Its the SMD's dying, but im not sure what causes it. I've got some spare globes of a different type that have been fine that i swap back in.

Same for me too. Mostly I've just swapped out the LED unit for another one and it's been fine.
David

[Disco-tastic]

Interesting.
I just bought a Coleman camping light and a matching rechargeable battery pack.It flickers,says on the box it has a quality Cree LED.
Andrew
Id be taking that back Andy... unless it has a "candle flicker" feature [emoji14]

[Tombie]

Ive had a few fail now..

Waiting on a shipment at the moment.

[AnD3rew]

Thanks for that. Will be annoying if they are dying already, they are only about 12 months. I guess that's what you get when you buy stuff from China from eBay.

[Disco-tastic]

I had some flicker within a month. They cost less than $1 each (they were bright 6 SMD chips) so i dont mind. My standard ones cost 10c a globe and ive had one die in about 6 months.

[LRD414]

The expensive ones from hids4u have all been good so far but the eBay ones have been around 1 in 5 flickering.

Too early to say if the extra cost is worth it given they are 5 quid each but my gut feel is probably, yes worth it.

Scott

[BMKal]

When I converted my reversing lights to LED, one of the new globes started "flickering" within a day of installing. On closer inspection - it was only one of the individual LED's in the end of the globe - the rest were working OK. Fortunately, I had purchased three of these globes from Jaycar, so I simply changed out the one that was flickering with the "spare" I had bought, and have had no problems since.

As for all the interior LED lights from Tombie - have never had any issues with any of them (apart from a lot of cursing and me eventually giving up when trying to change out the one in the glove box :censored:).