Interior light problem- Help!?

[Twinportal]

Hiya. Just fitted a festoon from crazy LED. It has 6 small LEDs in a casing.

Problem is when the car is locked or when the light switches off the LEDs are still shining very very slightly.

I think there must be a slight voltage leakage but its visible with the LED's as they only need slight current to work.

WILL THIS RUN MY BATTERY FLAT??????

James

[Twinportal]

Any body? :kiss:

[Oddjob]

Doubt it, LEDs are less than 3v usually.

[Twinportal]

Cheers. You can run those small falshing lights for alarms so this should be ok.

Does anybody know whats causing it? Any fixes? How bout a resistor?

Could it be a dodgy earth?

[Oddjob]

I think you may have to live with it as I suspect there's a residual current in the courtesy light circuit which is enough to light up such a low wattage blub as an LED but not the OE type.

[Twinportal]

Cheers matey your very helpful. Should be ok. May put in a resistor.