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Old 23-02-2008   #1 (Post Link)
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Help! My car has no light at all

Hi, I was playing around my parrot bletooth. I was trying solder some red LED to replace the parrot blue LED. But I found out it is impossible to do due to the LED is on the circuit board. so I put everything back then I was playing around the little interior light inside the ashtray. I wanted to solder some red LED so I can get some cool interior light under the ashtray. But it doesn't seems working so I put connect the original light bulb back the same way... then BIG TROUBLE.

I have no exterior light at all, no interior light, no sidelight, no xenon and no brake light (except I step on the brake). so I can only drive my car in daytime now. I checked almost every fuse but all seems fine. The little green light inside rev meter should be on when turn the light stalk but now is nothing.

What's going on??????? Can anyone help! I am so regret to play around the light.

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I have managed to fix it after few hours of mucking around. It was one of the fuse blown. The reason that I couldn't find it straight away is the fuse diagram in handbook is up side down to the actual. I realised it how come the fuse Amp are all wrong then try to read from up side down and bingo. The correct fuse to control the lights is blown. Now I'm happy and I don't think I will play with soldering any more.
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Glad you got it sorted, now stop tampering and get driving
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Sorted Now stop fiddling with the bulb colours and be happy
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For info you cannot just solder or connect an LED as a direct replacement for a standard bulb. LED's usually operate at 1.5 - 3 volts max and therefor will require a resistor in line with the LED to step the voltage down across the LED.
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That's probably why I blown the fuse. Anyway no more playing around with it for me.
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