So I just changed the interior dome lights to LEDs which I bought from ebay. It's not really much brighter than the stock halogen bulbs, but I really dig the colour of the light (pure white). HOWEVER, something really annoying is that two of the lights have to be on for the light to be at full brightness.

Basically what I mean is, if I'm driving and I just press one of the lights to go on, it comes on very very dim, but if I turn on the other light next to it, or I turn on the rear passenger dome light then they both come on at full brightness. Why the heck would this be happening? Why can't I just have one light on at full brightness? Kind of a weird thing so hoping someone can help me out here...

These are the LEDs I bought: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=160228981676

 

wow.... need to think about this one. weird.

 

I changed mine too but there is no such problem.

I got them from tunerdomes

http://www.tunerdomes.com/index.php?...wCat&catId=240


I bought the DOME DE3175 31mm 1Watt which is really bright similar to the original.

 

Just a little update, I found it only dims like that when the car is off. If the car is on then it works fine regardless if I only have 1 light on. But when the car is turned off and I turn only 1 light on it's super dim until I turn another light on. Are they just crappy quality LEDs?

 

I haven't noticed that when I changed my interior bulbs to LED. I'll check out mine, and let you know.

 

ok that gave me the info I needed, me tinks they have it on a regulator and their minimum input requirement is too high.

if you were to check the voltagebythe lights while car is on it can be around "13.5" when the car is off the input voltagedrops down to "11" and the LEDs need a minimum of "12" to run properly.

just poor design. etc.

 

you got cheapo LEDs, I bought HIGH FLUX LEDs 1.5 years ago, they are super bright.

They now have even brighter ones... This is where I got them

http://autolumination.com/festoon.htm

 

klas...............those look good.

based on your experience with them , which ones should i get.

i want the passenger and cargo area to be real bright.

i am o.k. with the level of brightness that the factory one put out in drivers area.

thanks for your help.

 

I've been doing some research and have heard some really good things about these lights: http://www.oznium.com/led-dome

I might replace the ones I bought from ebay with some of the 'thin flexible 5mm' ones from oznium.

 

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