blinking license plate light

[Camarok]

ok.... so my hyper white reverse lights look totally awesome, and the yellow license plate lights were just ruining it. SO i deceided to get some hyper white LEDs... Put em in and they are so cool.

I've been SHOwing people and they think it is totally awesome also. So today when i left the car watching the autolamps turn off.... i notice the right plate light is flickering. SO maybe the LED is bad and I swap both sides... well the right side is still blinking even with the other LED in it.

This has never occured untill now, i walk past the plate lights every night and now about a month later it starts doing this. SO then i put in a regular filiment bulb, no blinking. My guess is that it's because of the low draw from the LED, but why is it just starting to do this. It is blinking quite regularly... like a strobe would. Any other thoughts...? shrug

Again, it is only doing this on the right side...

thanks you electroinc gurus!

 

[SHOZ123]

Well if you swapped the LEDs and it still happened it cannot be the bulbs. Must be the wiring. I would suspect the ground wire.

Take an ohm meter and check the resistance between the ground and a bare spot on the body in the trunk. Should be under 1 ohm. While you have the meter check the voltage of the hot wire too. Should be within 1 volt of what the battery is reading at that time.

 

[Camarok]

Well I'll try that.... but it does not blink with a regular incandescent bulb.... which makes it odd. And... arent' both plate lights grounded to the same spot... and on the same circuit?

 

[SHOZ123]

An LED is an electronic device unlike an incandesent bulb which is just resitive wire. So a LED is more sensitive to voltage. I am sure they are both on the same hot and ground wires in the mail loom but the individual pigtale or socket is all by itself.

 

[Camarok]

SHOZ123:
An LED is an electronic device unlike an incandesent bulb which is just resitive wire. So a LED is more sensitive to voltage. I am sure they are both on the same hot and ground wires in the mail loom but the individual pigtale or socket is all by itself.

I understand that but seeing that it hasn't done this for a month untill now.... it seems very odd, I will be checking the voltage and what not tongiht after school, so thatnks for the help, i hope it' just a ground... oh

 

[Camarok]

Well i tested resistance, and voltage, on both fixtures... they both read the same. I'm about to make my own ground...