LED marker and dome not impress

homer1959-JAY

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My Jayflight 2019 came equipped with LED inside and out. Puck light are prone to flicker and burn prematurely. Command has been good enough to replace all my defective puck light so this is the good thing

Now its the marker that are burning way too fast. To be honest the good old light bulb were much better.

What is your expérience with these new and improve light 🙄🙄
 
I cannot speak for internal lighting. Mine I swapped out the incandescent bulbs to led. All work fine, but they are not oem led fixtures.

I have converted all my trailers to led running lights. Never have an issue unless I break one (semi common issue on utility trailers). I would never go back to incandescent bulbs on the running lights. This winter I'm going to switch out boy scout trailer to LED. Every trip I'm always tapping on lights to get them to work.
 
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Now its the marker that are burning way too fast. To be honest the good old light bulb were much better.
What is your expérience with these new and improve light 🙄🙄


Usually it's not the LED's themselves, it's the cheap components used to "drive" the LED chip that fail. Also, some cheap LED lights may produce or start producing unwanted RF interference as components fail, which causes TV / radio reception problems.
If properly designed, LED's are great with many advantages over good old incandescent bulbs. When manufacturers cheap out it's a problem for the consumer.
 
I upgraded to LED running and tail lights and found many were very poorly factory connected on the ones I took out. When I replaced them I used butt connectors with low temp (heat gun temp) solder and shrink tube in one. Much better and not problems. 3 years and a lot of miles plus storage outside in Illinois weather and no failures.

Inside I found a lot of poor electrical work. Poor connections, failure to screw wires tightly to the ground bar, rubbing wires, etc.
 
Well thats another job to add to the list now if i can find a schematic of all those marker lights maybe they all start at the junction box at the front of the unit near the battery what do you think ?
 
Well thats another job to add to the list now if i can find a schematic of all those marker lights maybe they all start at the junction box at the front of the unit near the battery what do you think ?
Not sure it matters if you do them all. One suggestion is that you connect all of them, check to make sure all light up, then screw and caulk of you choice to keep water out. I used Geocel clear for mine.
I really like the low temp but connectors. Amazon search solder seal connectors. About $10 for a big enough selection with plenty left over.
 

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