Tartanbj Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Have fitted 7" LED Headlights to 310R - great results except a a bit of flickering Fitted Canbus into headlight wiring to compensate and it works great on driver side - no flickering at all - but still a bit of flickering on the passenger side Both Canbus heat up so doing there job but can't seem to get rid of the flickering on one side any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM25T Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 LEDs often flicker as they die ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K7 VCT Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Are they caterham units or just bulbs? I have h4 LED bulbs all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartanbj Posted February 3, 2018 Author Share Posted February 3, 2018 full led headlightshope they are not dying! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Golf Juliet Tango Posted February 3, 2018 Area Representative Share Posted February 3, 2018 It is a tricky situation. I think that probably we all want to shift from tungsten-halogen to LED but are not quite confident that the technology has been perfected for automotive use.It is certainly close but a Seven will give any component a sterner test of its physical robustness than most cars. This is something we have to live with, if the component is robust enough for most cars, that is where it is likely to remain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted February 4, 2018 Member Share Posted February 4, 2018 What type of lamps? Do they have a control unit/ dongle or does the traditional wiring go directly to the lamp?I'd want to distinguish between flickering due to the electrical feed and flickering due to something intrinsic. How about: Looking at the feed voltage while one of them is flickering. Disconnecting them totally from the car and reconnecting them to a steady 12 to 13 V feed. If you don't have anything else you could do that with the car battery, again disconnected from everything else.What doe CAN bus have to do with this?Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted February 4, 2018 Member Share Posted February 4, 2018 I think that probably we all want to shift from tungsten-halogen to LED but are not quite confident that the technology has been perfected for automotive use.Roughly yes, and that's why we need exact model descriptions if we're to learn from each others' experiences.Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartanbj Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 Hi1. Lynx 2. Straight in to H4 connectorI'll try 1 and 2 ideas ta whats interesting is the one of them has no flickering at all. When investigating the WWW they advised fitting a CAN bus to help pull the right load as LEDs pull a lot less - that can solve flickering - and it did - but just for one of them ;(I had a set of 5 3/4 on and there was no flickering so I agree with point on some work and some dont!But of course I couldn't leave it alone, could I ! Had to go 7" and they do look nice, one step forward, one step back - gives me something to ponder and fiddle with tho'cheersBruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted February 4, 2018 Member Share Posted February 4, 2018 Thanks.When investigating the WWW they advised fitting a CAN bus to help pull the right load as LEDs pull a lot less - that can solve flickering - and it did - but just for one of themDoes a 310R have either CAN bus or pulse width modulation on the lighting supply?Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted February 5, 2018 Member Share Posted February 5, 2018 Developing discussion of CAN bus on 7s.Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard K Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 How about swoping left and right to see if the same one has error?Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartanbj Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 will try swapping - need to get sorted as weather getting better - even in Scotland! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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