I got 48 SMT V2 Switchback LED from V-LEDS.com few days ago. I installed them with the resistors and they worked fine. Today, I tried it on and one side was flickering. So I thought the LED went bad. To confirm it, it took the other side and swapped them. It didn't work. As I was playing around with them, I found a weird trend.

Both of the LEDs work perfectly outside the light housing.
Both of the LEDS work fine in amber in and out the light housing.

When it's in white, the light starts going out as the LEDs get inserted into the housing. When it reaches the third LED from the top, they die and come back on when I pull them off. Crazy thing is that both side do the exact same thing!!!
I thought it was a wiring, I move the wiring around, they did not make any difference. I tried changing the fuse to 15A from 10A, no difference.

It's almost like there is a wall of automatic switch
Does anyone have this issue?

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So I wiggle the harness directly connected to the LED and nothing happened. I took the plastic cover under the hood and LED comes back on when I wiggle the wire harness that's connected to HID and fog light. It dies gradually after I let them go. Same thing on the both side. I guess, I gotta take the bumper off and see which ones are bad.
I cleared the head light few wks ago. They worked fine with the regular light bulbs.

 

connection issue?

 

wow i never seen this, but it can be that when u put the led inside is it moving the leds? if it is pushing the led the connection might get lose and turn off.

 

^No, the LEDs are inserted into the socket pretty good.

 

check your wire harness. looks like every time you put the LED bulb in, you're stretching the wire harness a little and maybe connection came loose....and when you take it out of the socket, it loosen the wire harness. that's all i can think of.

 

I have V-leds that do this too. These bulbs have a sensor that make the white sensitive to outside light. If you pull into a garage or shade, the white will come back on. This, however, has nothing to do with the amber flashers, just the white parking LED. The ambers will flash regardless of the exposure of exterior light.

Try covering the LEDs as you have the light switch on.... or if you are in the garage, shine a flashlight at the bulb and you will see what I mean.


Hope this helps.

 

^So it could be fixed when it gets dark?? Let get my car somewhere dark ASAP. It's driving me crazy. But it kinda make sense since it lights up no problem behind the light housing where it's competely dark.

 

SlimTL!!!! You are so right!!! I put the window shape over the LED and it lighted up like I turned on the light. Wow.

Thanks dude, made my day!!!

 

^Yep, your bulbs are fine. They aren't broken and there is nothing wrong with your wire harness, switch, or fuse.

If you press the unlock button on your remote while the sun is out, all the parking lights will flash...the switchbacks will flash for a split second and quickly dim to off or not flash at all if it senses light exposure.

If you press the unlock button on your remote at night with your car in the exact same position, all the parking lights will falsh...including the switchback white at full power.

I can pretty much guarantee it!!

 

You're welcome.

 

Interesting... the switchbacks have built-in light sensors.

does this feature apply to all switchbacks or just this model?

 

Hmm curious myself!

 

Wow.....interesting!

 

I guess the sensor is located somewhere close to the bottom of the tower.
When I wiggle the harness from the tire housing, I was on my knee so the sun hits the light. When i wiggle the the harness from the top of the light, I was creating a shadow. I was fooled by the LED!!!

 

Only the Type 2 V-leds have the sensors. It's part of the 3 chip technology that's built in.

The type 1 V-leds alternate the white and amber for flashing, whereas the type 2 completely shuts off the white and allow amber to operate on it's own. When the flashing amber is complete, the sensors will let the white know that there is no other light source, such as the amber flashing, and power the white leds back on.

 

Bumping this to correct false info.

I am having the same problem with mine, and this is the response I got back from V-LED's (whom I might add, have great customer service):

Please see there thread I made here for more info: https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-problems-fixes-114/v-leds-v2-switchback-issue-775657/

 

Wow!!!!

Called me out. It seemed to make sense to me, but I guess not.

Maybe it was a side effect they never expected to occur.

 

LOL...wasn't trying to sound like a dick, sorry.

Email I got from V-Led's for everyone having this problem:

So if you are having this problem, please email V-Led's with your invoice number (you can look it up on their site) so they can track down the bad batch, and get you a new set of bulbs.

 

The issue has finally be hammered out by V-LED's. Anyone experiencing this problem, please contact them for replacement. More details on this at this thread:

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...7#post12008847

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