Interference from Flood LED's

well my led's are 1 foot under water and a good 15 feet away from the boats ant. And the moment there turned on nothing but static

hmmmm
so if its not near the antenna its ok???

might be better than what we got

regardless already told the factory our results so we're trying to get zero interference as the goal

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Any new news on the beta versions?

Factory is still working to get zero interference and minimal heat output.

Holy Crap!

Just installed five of these on my Jeep Wrangler for rock crawling and discovered the immense static that they cause.

Worked for hours soldering and making custom mounts and wire looming each LED back to a central box. Then worked for hours trying to figure out what was causing the problem. Once I connected a single flood LED isolated outside of the Jeep directly to the battery I knew these things were bad news.

Then I find this forum and that this has been a known issue since MARCH and there is no warning or any mention of the problem on the product page.

Sorry to sound so gruff but this product should not be for sale or at the very least should be posted with a warning.

Oznium what do I do now?

I agree 100% that there should be a warning on the product page. I also went to considerable expense fabricating a custom Stainless Steel enclosure to mount 8 of these floods on my boat.

I found, as you now have, that Oznium was aware of the issue before I made my purchase. If I would have known of the problem I would have used something other than these LED Floods. I am kind of STUCK with them now due to the great expense and hours of fabricating work.

I was planning on installing two of these under the passenger foot rest on the GoldWing but I think I'll wait until I hear from the factory RE this problem. In case some of you don't know; the GoldWing is a Honda touring motorcycle that has CB, AM/FM, cassette, & two way communications between the passenger & the driver. This interferance could be an issue.

I went with Pirhana bars under the footboards (or any of the flexibles) No interferance

I think that there was only one case of these causing static if I recall right.

You MIGHT want to read thru the thread there .

There's a half dozen complaining of it on boats

bad venge wrote:

You MIGHT want to read thru the thread there . There's a half dozen complaining of it on boats

...and one person complaining about them when used as brake lights on a car.

Fortunately my issue (brake lights) is more just annoying than a safety problem...

How's the R and D going Oznium?

I hate for my second post in this forum to be a complaint but I am heated. This was my first post:

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ciscopath wrote:

I just installed eight 1-Watt LED Floods and tied them into the courtesy lights of my Acura TL. The "planned" purpose of the lights is to come on when I hit UNLOCK on my keyfob and go out w/ LOCK. Lights work perfectly when I unlock the doors but I have to stand directly next to the car when the lights are on for the keyfob to function. If I'm more than 3 ft away, the TL doesn't respond to anything. And after 30 seconds w/o opening the doors, the car re-locks itself, lights go out, and the fob works at normal range again. It's almost as if the lights (which only generate 8 watts) are drawing power away from the keyfob's RF receiver causing it lose the range at which it normally picks up fob commands? Can anyone recommend a relay or resistor that may resolve this?

Now I’m reading this thread and learning that this has been an on-going issue since March that has nothing to do with power but with crappy design. I purchased 3 lights in early October and noticed sometimes the car would respond and sometimes it wouldn’t. Thought the fob battery may have been weak. Purchased 5 more on November 2 giving me four on each sideskirt. Now, to find out these lights interfere with RF signals defeats the whole purpose of my project since the functionality of the lights and my key fob are at war and absolutely no warning was given. From March to November, no product warning. I cut holes specifically the size of the lights into body components of my car, so there is no turning back now. Starting to feel a little ripped off here. I know I can easily get a refund, but it’s almost as if Oznium is trying to get over and hoping no one uses the lights near a radio. And it sux to feel this way because I've been buying from them for years with no problems.

The factory has finally found a solution to fix the RF interference. Yes you are right, we do hope customers don't have to use them with RF, but a fix will be ready soon.

Will the people who bought them already be able to exchange them for the new design ones?

I was kinda hoping that goes without saying. I'm gonna try the foil for the time being but from what I can tell from the Oznium reps, they're more than willing to accomodate.

If for some reason you are not able to use the current product because of RF you can let me know and we can send you new ones when we get these in and make sure they are good to go!!

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