I'm not asking for advice or suggestions, but merely making an observation that might affect everyone that drives a car.
I replaced my dome light a few days ago, from a halogen bulb to an LED based
light into the same receptacle. It works nice and has nice bright white light and runs even cooler than the original light!
Mose dome light have three positions. Off | Door Activated | On
I noticed that while driving around at night that when the switch position is in the "Door activated" position that there is a fairly faint glow of the LED's. If I switch to off, the glow goes out. IF I switch back, the glow returns. This just makes me wonder how many other lights (Light above the mirror, glove compartment, trunk...etc. could be draining the same small current. It's got to be small as the LED's are very dim, but not sure what sort of current is required to get a 20mA - 25mA SMT LED to begin to glow.....3mA? 5mA, or more.
I replaced my dome light a few days ago, from a halogen bulb to an LED based
light into the same receptacle. It works nice and has nice bright white light and runs even cooler than the original light!
Mose dome light have three positions. Off | Door Activated | On
I noticed that while driving around at night that when the switch position is in the "Door activated" position that there is a fairly faint glow of the LED's. If I switch to off, the glow goes out. IF I switch back, the glow returns. This just makes me wonder how many other lights (Light above the mirror, glove compartment, trunk...etc. could be draining the same small current. It's got to be small as the LED's are very dim, but not sure what sort of current is required to get a 20mA - 25mA SMT LED to begin to glow.....3mA? 5mA, or more.