LED interference..? Video proof??? (1 Viewer)

[KLF]

I’m open to that.

Its just harder to see it as common when I’ve LED’d the living poo out of everything in and arounnd my 200 with never a single hint of that. I actually believe if I carefully count, there are somewhere between 200 and 1500 light emitting diodes (yes, one thousand five hundred) in and on my truck, depending on which are active (the extra 1200 are on my crazy buggy whip I use in the DDDD (dusty desert dune darkness). Even fully lit up, no issue.

-Everythig from sophisticated Baja Designs, Stedi, Milwaukee, …to sketchy “Super Bright LED” rear lights—each vontaining 20 each (40), three National Lunas with 30 each (so 90), various brands in all of the 11 interior spots, each of which contain many individual LEDs per unit… …High power headlight hi and lo beam LEDs, and many more.

And still… No such trouble.

Maybe I’m just *incredibly* lucky?

Oh I hear ya. I've swapped every bulb in 2 - 200 series to LED now, mostly from SB, and I have a bunch of other lights, and also no issues. None. Very strange.

 

[hp2013]

Count me as another person encountering this issue.

Got around to installing interior LEDs yesterday (from super bright led) and everything seemed to be working fine initially - all lights working, didn’t notice any key fob issues, all good.

This morning I went out to the car and ran in to the same issues described here - key fob intermittently not working and getting the “key fob not detected” message. Thought maybe it was a battery issue, so tried out my other fob and had the same issues. Replaced the batteries in both fobs and still had the same issue. Did a quick search here, read this thread, and decided to pull the LEDs and put the original bulbs back in. Immediately the key fob issues went away.

Strange that I have other LEDs (trunk light, backup lights, license plate light, fog lights) and never had an issue like this before. I’m going to try again with a brand other than super bright LEDs and see if that works. FWIW, this is a 2013 LC.

 

[jrmudder92]

Count me as another person encountering this issue.

Got around to installing interior LEDs yesterday (from super bright led) and everything seemed to be working fine initially - all lights working, didn’t notice any key fob issues, all good.

This morning I went out to the car and ran in to the same issues described here - key fob intermittently not working and getting the “key fob not detected” message. Thought maybe it was a battery issue, so tried out my other fob and had the same issues. Replaced the batteries in both fobs and still had the same issue. Did a quick search here, read this thread, and decided to pull the LEDs and put the original bulbs back in. Immediately the key fob issues went away.

Strange that I have other LEDs (trunk light, backup lights, license plate light, fog lights) and never had an issue like this before. I’m going to try again with a brand other than super bright LEDs and see if that works. FWIW, this is a 2013 LC.

Yea it’s suck. I only charged the top half of bulbs. So everything above your head with just some random Amazon ones. And it fixed it. Crazy how something so simple can do this.

 

[alta]

I believe it is just the dome lights that cause issues.

If you want to experiment try this:

Use the “Door” button on the overhead console by the sun glasses holder. This will temporarily disable your dome lights. If this fixes it then you know the issue. I tried this and my symptoms disappears for months. I turned them on again the other night and they immediately returned.

 

[nexizen]

I had this issue! Some LED bulbs include a voltage regulator that is SUPER noisy. It will kill the radio reception for the fob.

I had installed a set of these and started having issues. It took me, my Toyota dealership service guy, and someone from Toyota corporate to figure out the issue. I then swapped to these. The problem magically went away!

 

[Adrenaline6]

I have heard of interference from LED's, even some cheap USB car chargers. The kit I got from FullyLitLED here on this forum has had zero problems.

 

[hp2013]

Did some testing on my end and agree with @alta - the overhead lights were the ones causing interference.

I was using the same LEDs that @nexizen mentioned and when I took those out of the overhead lights - but left them in the puddle lights - the issues went away. Switched out to some diode dynamic LEDs for the overhead lights and no longer having issues.

 

[mdrei]

Did some testing on my end and agree with @alta - the overhead lights were the ones causing interference.

I was using the same LEDs that @nexizen mentioned and when I took those out of the overhead lights - but left them in the puddle lights - the issues went away. Switched out to some diode dynamic LEDs for the overhead lights and no longer having issues.

Thanks for the update.

 

[Blackford Oakes]

I picked up these mentioned in @mcgaskins Palladium build thread.

I have not installed them yet. Has any else used them with 100% success?

https://a.co/d/gkxoBVq