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  1. 11th January 2017, 09:12 PM #1
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    Flickering interior lights

    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?
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  2. 11th January 2017, 09:26 PM #2
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    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.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco-tastic View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LandyAndy View Post
    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.
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    Id be taking that back Andy... unless it has a "candle flicker" feature Flickering interior lights
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  6. 12th January 2017, 11:20 AM #6
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    Ive had a few fail now..

    Waiting on a shipment at the moment.
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  7. 12th January 2017, 07:14 PM #7
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    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.
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  8. 12th January 2017, 08:49 PM #8
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    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.
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  9. 12th January 2017, 09:23 PM #9
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    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.

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  10. 14th January 2017, 01:03 PM #10
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    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 ).
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