Motor Head
Senior Member
Nice. As an update, no issues on my truck using these for rears and cargo lamps. No complaints thus far!
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Too bad I can not buy these LED with shipping to The Netherlands.... I want to change the cargo and upperbrakes and the reverse lights to LED the others are LED on a Laramie.
Swapped out my reverse lights two weeks ago.
Accidentally only ordered 1 set at that time.
Ordered another set from amazon for my cargo bed lights and they arrived yesterday. Got em installed today. Super easy and definite upgrade for cheap.
Great thread and mod OP.
UPDATE:
Looked at my cargo lights last night.
1) they are insanely bright when on (in a rural setting with low/no light pollution). Very useful. Lit up my whole yard and road.
2) they’re constantly on (albeit just barely-very dim). Constant draw. When the switch is toggled OFF the lights are still just barely on.
I recalled some other guy posted that too.
Wonder if that’s gonna be a problem.
Thanks. I’m a novice. Where would I source something like that and how would that be installed?Probably need a bleed resistor. A lot of electronic switches have enough leakage cutting to dimly light an LED. Usually a 1K is enough to solve the problem.
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Use to be able to get at Radio Shack. But I know electrical so I know how to wire in.Thanks. I’m a novice. Where would I source something like that and how would that be installed?
Its nice to really be able to see behind you. LEDs for reverse lights plus my Putco Blade just wake everything up at night.
I was getting that after installing my LEDs and using AlphOBD setting the lights to LED. Then my wife tells me, "Did you know one of your backup lights is out?"I've tried several brands of LED back up lights for my 2019 RAM 1500 Classic and everyone of them give me the message "backup light is out". What brand is compatible to not send that message? Thanks, Tom
The "refresh" problem you are experiencing on the backup camera with the LEDs is because the controller in the truck is sending out a pwm signal instead of a straight DC signal. This can be solved by telling the truck that you have LEDs in that location . This also eliminates the bulb out warning for LEDs without resistors.Bought these and got them installed. They are a lot more blue than I thought they would be.
They are brighter than the incandescent bulb but not nearly as bright as I was hoping for.
Additionally, I noticed that when looking at the backup camera, the refresh rate causes the scrolling on the display. I haven't seen anyone else mention this before and hadn't thought about it until seeing it.
Is this common on all LED bulb upgrades?
2017 RAM 1500 CC, LoneStar, Black Pearl