VT Calais Interior Light not working

[SMIT]

hey guys,
Just installed a VT calais interior light into my car. The main interior light goes on and off with the doors and evan when i push the buttons on the light the main light will come on but not the other 2? its completing teh circuit i know this because the other lights dont turn on.

It says on the light that you need 12v8w globes i replace with 12v10w glove but no luck, 2 watts wouldent make a differnece.

I know there is an eye crimp for the -ve on the 2 smaller ones and im 99% its getting earth...


anyone goy any ideas?

[greekplaya]

hey guys,
Just installed a VT calais interior light into my car. The main interior light goes on and off with the doors and evan when i push the buttons on the light the main light will come on but not the other 2? its completing teh circuit i know this because the other lights dont turn on.

It says on the light that you need 12v8w globes i replace with 12v10w glove but no luck, 2 watts wouldent make a differnece.

I know there is an eye crimp for the -ve on the 2 smaller ones and im 99% its getting earth...


anyone goy any ideas?

I've just done the same thing and I think the wattage and the switches are linked somehow (i've got no real idea with electrics). I've got an LED as the main and standard halogens in the maps lights and all switches only turn on the main. My thinking is that the switches work by what is drawing the least power and turning that on which in my case is the main light.

Hope that helps somehow, if anyone can let me know if i'm even close to being right that'd help too

[SMIT]

I've just done the same thing and I think the wattage and the switches are linked somehow (i've got no real idea with electrics). I've got an LED as the main and standard halogens in the maps lights and all switches only turn on the main. My thinking is that the switches work by what is drawing the least power and turning that on which in my case is the main light.

Hope that helps somehow, if anyone can let me know if i'm even close to being right that'd help too

weird ive got a LED as a main light and normal for the map reading light as well, might be the problem. anyone got any ideas?>

[accentstencil]

They won't work properly by just plugging them in, they need some modifications but I don't know how to do it.

[greekplaya]

I'm fairly confident on the wiring side of things mine's perfect because when I put a standard halogen in the main as well all lights function as they should. So I think it must come down to the voltage of the LEDs???

[SMIT]

Wait all your lights, light up? Evan the 2 map reading light when you use the normal globe?

[greekplaya]

Wait all your lights, light up? Evan the 2 map reading light when you use the normal globe?

that's right, if i put a normal halogen globe in the main light all my lights function as they should, it's once i put the LED in that the map lights stop working

[SMIT]

Ok well leds draw hardly any power compared to halogen, so its the resistors in the led festoon which are the problem.

[greekplaya]

Ok well leds draw hardly any power compared to halogen, so its the resistors in the led festoon which are the problem.

that's what I thought once I found that out so I've got some smaller LEDs on order for the map lights so once they rock up I'll put them in and if what I'm thinking is right all should function as it should

[SMIT]

that's what I thought once I found that out so I've got some smaller LEDs on order for the map lights so once they rock up I'll put them in and if what I'm thinking is right all should function as it should

hey mate did you get the led lights in yet? is it working??

[greekplaya]

hey mate did you get the led lights in yet? is it working??

still waiting on the smaller LEDs to arrive I'll make sure I post up once I know

[greekplaya]

LEDs arrived today and all is now functioning as it should

[SMIT]

Sweet, will order some, thanks for the info greekplaya.

[greekplaya]

Sweet, will order some, thanks for the info greekplaya.

no problems glad i could help somebody else

[VS_Wagon_Baby]

I just bought a calais interior light for my vt aclaim and the main light works as it should, but if the main one is turned off, when you turn on 1 map light, the map light works but the main light turns on slightly, and when both map lights are on the main light lights up fully and the map lights are both very dull, like hardly even lit. Is this what happened with you guys? Mine has all normal globes in it, no LED's, so it has me stumped.

[greekplaya]

I just bought a calais interior light for my vt aclaim and the main light works as it should, but if the main one is turned off, when you turn on 1 map light, the map light works but the main light turns on slightly, and when both map lights are on the main light lights up fully and the map lights are both very dull, like hardly even lit. Is this what happened with you guys? Mine has all normal globes in it, no LED's, so it has me stumped.

I seem to remember that when I had halogens in my light that the main light would come on very dim but I can't remember whether I worked out how to stop it before I got all LEDs, might be worth trying a different globe maybe, are all the globes working?

[VS_Wagon_Baby]

I seem to remember that when I had halogens in my light that the main light would come on very dim but I can't remember whether I worked out how to stop it before I got all LEDs, might be worth trying a different globe maybe, are all the globes working?

Yeah mate, all the globes work. I think there is power leaking through into the main light it seems. I might buy all new globes and see what happens, won;t cost too much. How much are LED's that would fit all 3 spots?

[greekplaya]

Yeah mate, all the globes work. I think there is power leaking through into the main light it seems. I might buy all new globes and see what happens, won;t cost too much. How much are LED's that would fit all 3 spots?

Sorry mate can't remember what I ended up working out with the faint main I think I just ignored it since I was going all LEDs. Can't remember exactly on the LED pricing but I think it was somewhere between $5-$15.

[VS_Wagon_Baby]

So there is no leaking with the LED's? That'd be good. Can you get blue LED's for the main light in there?

[greekplaya]

everything functions as it should with all globes LEDs, you can put any colour you like so long as the globe fits, from memory I think its a 39mm festoon

[VS_Wagon_Baby]

Thanks mate, appreciate it. Looks like i'm buying some LED's.