raymcshake
- Jun 17, 2016
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I'm a trained electrician, but over here (Norway) electricians rarely work on specific electronics components, mostly complete pre assembled products, so I've sadly forgotten most of the small electronics knowhow I got from school. Hope some of you can help me with this.
I've swapped out the incandescent bulbs in the dome light in my car for LED plates from eBay with 48pcs 5050 SMDs per plate. Being eBay stuff, there's not very much information or specs, least of all watts, amps and the likes.
The car is from 2007 and every module in the car is on a CANBus network, meaning when the car is running and the network is active, the LED plates glow dimly. This irritates me something fierce. I've been led to believe I can solder in a resistor either in series or parrallel with the LED plates to solve this, but my electronics skills are like I said, next to irrelevant. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. What ohm value would the resistors need to be, and in series or parrallel? What specs would you need on the car or LED plates to calculate this?
Voltage drop when LED plates are lit? Supply voltage? Amp pull?
Appreciate any help.
I've swapped out the incandescent bulbs in the dome light in my car for LED plates from eBay with 48pcs 5050 SMDs per plate. Being eBay stuff, there's not very much information or specs, least of all watts, amps and the likes.
The car is from 2007 and every module in the car is on a CANBus network, meaning when the car is running and the network is active, the LED plates glow dimly. This irritates me something fierce. I've been led to believe I can solder in a resistor either in series or parrallel with the LED plates to solve this, but my electronics skills are like I said, next to irrelevant. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. What ohm value would the resistors need to be, and in series or parrallel? What specs would you need on the car or LED plates to calculate this?
Voltage drop when LED plates are lit? Supply voltage? Amp pull?
Appreciate any help.