LED trailer lights

[wandsbee@bigpond.net.au]

We have a 2005 Discovery 3. It tows our caravan with ease, but we would like to hire a camper trailer to do a bit more off roading next year. It comes with LED lights. We have heard there is a problem hooking the Disco to a trailer fitted with LEDs. Has anyone heard of this please? Any solutions please?

[ChuckD]

When I hooked up to a rental trailer with LED's they flashed dimly even with the car off.

There may be a clue in this experience: I bought and installed a LED tail & brake light kit on my wife's 1928 Model A Ford Woodie street rod. Noticed that, after several hours the brake lights slowly came on by themselves, one LED at a time, and fairly dim. Called the vendor and they recommended a new brake light switch as it takes only a bit of current leakage to fire the LED's. I first tried cleaning the grease and dirt off the switch, as it is hard to remove, and the problem went away.

The LED kit came with a new turn signal flasher, too.

ChuckD

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It needs a pulse shunt for LEDs to stop them from flashing.