Replacing VF reading lamp globes with LED’s

[LodiBruce]

LOL, no lady of the nights in my car, unless she IS my significant other.

Well, I worked nights for two decades and I got very used to operating with red interior lighting. It really helps preserve your night vision. I was not trying to compliment the Holden using red, it just turned out that way. Like I said, I just changed the dome lights. I left the map lights with retina burning 6000k white lights. Just in case those are needed also.

Thanks,
B.

 

[Journeycastro12]

the reading lamp circuit has a chip in it that detects load/resistance from the bulb to workout the bulbs on or off state so the switch press can toggle the correct state on/off.
the leds don't provide enough load or feedback to the chip so it does not detect if the bulb is on or off and it gets stuck(normally on).

you need to find leds that put more load on the circuit so the on/off state can be detected.

its much like how some hid kits don't work with the canbus in the vf because its looking for resistance from the bulb and the hid kits don't provide it so the canbus generates errors.
the fix for that is just a little circuit to add load/resistance between the vehicle light plug and hid kit plug.

Hey old comment so not expecting a response haha, but I have some led bulbs I put in my map lights and it seems on hot days that they don’t want to turn off, could the day heat of fnq be messing with the chip Turing on/off?

 

[stooge]

Hey old comment so not expecting a response haha, but I have some led bulbs I put in my map lights and it seems on hot days that they don’t want to turn off, could the day heat of fnq be messing with the chip Turing on/off?

the heat might be causing a different level of resistance on the circuit.
i know mine started to play up occasionally so i took the leds out and put the blue t-10 bulbs in

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[Journeycastro12]

the heat might be causing a different level of resistance on the circuit.
i know mine started to play up occasionally so i took the leds out and put the blue t-10 bulbs in

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Ahh yeah, I first got some red t10 off eBay which worked fine but then I replaced them with colour changing ones from spectrum. I’ve only ever had problems recently and it only seems to happen in bad heat

 

[RevNev]

the heat might be causing a different level of resistance on the circuit.

I've discovered LED map reading lights not switching off seems to occur with VF interior light assemblies but not VE. I swapped the circuit board in my VF assembly that wouldn't switch off with LED's to a VE board and although it looks pretty much the same visually, the LED map reading lights work perfectly and likewise in hot weather. The VE circuit boards that worked with LED's, came from black interior light assemblies.

 

[stooge]

Ahh yeah, I first got some red t10 off eBay which worked fine but then I replaced them with colour changing ones from spectrum. I’ve only ever had problems recently and it only seems to happen in bad heat

mine might have been playing up due to heat too, i never thought to associate the two plus i was using garbage sca branded leds so i just ripped them out.

temperatures do increase/reduce the resistance on conductors so you are probably spot on with working out the temperature is the cause of the issue.

 

[Journeycastro12]

I've discovered LED map reading lights not switching off seems to occur with VF interior light assemblies but not VE. I swapped the circuit board in my VF assembly that wouldn't switch off with LED's to a VE board and although it looks pretty much the same visually, the LED map reading lights work perfectly and likewise in hot weather. The VE circuit boards that worked with LED's, came from black interior light assemblies.

Yeah mines a ve s1 car but I did a conversion to a s2 which has the map lights, did the s2 ve maybe share the same circuit board as the vf?

 

[greenacc]

Yeah mines a ve s1 car but I did a conversion to a s2 which has the map lights, did the s2 ve maybe share the same circuit board as the vf?

Don't know, but you could try a circuit board from a high level VE series 1 interior. Berlina, Calais, Stato?

 

[Journeycastro12]

Don't know, but you could try a circuit board from a high level VE series 1 interior. Berlina, Calais, Stato?

How do I tell the difference between them all they all kind of look the same to me

 

[RevNev]

Yeah mines a ve s1 car but I did a conversion to a s2 which has the map lights, did the s2 ve maybe share the same circuit board as the vf?

I don't know electronically but looks much the same and the VE circuit board fits and works in the VF housing.