LED tail lights made T/C and Cruise control die?

[greggy85]

I have installed Stop/tail and indicator LED's in my VZ and its killed the T/c and Cruise con.... its quite strange though as it seems only to be the parkers doing it, if i start the car with no lights on all is fine, if i have my foot on the brake all is fine, if i turn on parkers or headlights with foot on brake all is fine, if i take my foot off the brake while head lights or parkers are on it trips off traction control and cruise control..
This has me way too confused, I just don't understand how that could have caused this??? if anything i would have expected the brake lights or indicators to do it not the parkers????

Any idea's folks?? :bang: :cry:

 

[hakhawk]

the cruise and t/c needs the load from the normal globes to work. now that you;ve got leds in there, that load is gone. you will need to add a load resistor to the brake circuit before it will work properly again.

 

[SMIT]

Autobarn might have a solution, remember seeing LED flasher cans and such for all the new led things

 

[-Junior-]

the cruise and t/c needs the load from the normal globes to work. now that you;ve got leds in there, that load is gone. you will need to add a load resistor to the brake circuit before it will work properly again.

Yep correct, the system needs to see the current to work.

 

[greggy85]

makes sense.. cheers guys. Had me a touch worried for a while that id cooked something, im terrible with electronics!

 

[colin-commodore]

Do you just cut the brake wire and retire the resistor in?