Interference from Flood LED's

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

D A N N Y

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!!

D A N N Y

I am one of the customers having problems. I am using 6 blue and 2 red floods.

So you'll send replacements or do I need to contact the company directly????

same here

Phil thank you for your persistence. As soon they are ready I am ready to make a purchase.
Thanks again,
Charlie Haws

diy_darryl, RF free blue will be shipped tomorrow
lime4x4, RF free blue will be shipped tomorrow
bpatrick, RF free red will be shipped tomorrow

ciscopath, unfortunately we do not have the cool white in RF free version yet, it will likely be another few months

red, blue, green, orange available in RF free now
cool white, warm white, gonna be a few more months

thanks for patience, sorry about the inconvenience

Phil wrote:

diy_darryl, RF free blue will be shipped tomorrow lime4x4, RF free blue will be shipped tomorrow bpatrick, RF free red will be shipped tomorrow ciscopath, unfortunately we do not have the cool white in RF free version yet, it will likely be another few months red, blue, green, orange available in RF free now cool white, warm white, gonna be a few more months thanks for patience, sorry about the inconvenience

Yay for Oznium

awesome will have to order one of the new RF models i have one of the old ones behind my tv in my room and it messes with my surround sound and makes my tv go fuzzy. so are the ones on the product page now the RF models?

Yep if you order r,b,g,o

Phil wrote:

diy_darryl, RF free blue will be shipped tomorrow lime4x4, RF free blue will be shipped tomorrow bpatrick, RF free red will be shipped tomorrow ciscopath, unfortunately we do not have the cool white in RF free version yet, it will likely be another few months red, blue, green, orange available in RF free now cool white, warm white, gonna be a few more months thanks for patience, sorry about the inconvenience

Awesome! Thanks a lot! Most companies wouldn't even bother r&d a revised product, they would just keep pushing the original and tell everybody else you are s-o-l. I will post updates once I get the new ones installed.

My thanks to Oznium for working out a solution and sending replacement RF-FREE units.

You stated I had blue replacements on the way but did not mention my RED ones, maybe you overlooked it. I bought 6 blues and 2 reds, all installed on my boat and all causing the same problem.

Thank you so much for standing up and doing the right thing. I'll be ordering more Oznium products for my next projects!!!!

diy_darryl, RF free red & blue were shipped today

Received my replacement package.

Just one question as my removal and replacement will be difficult to access, plus it is cold out and may not accomplish the task for a while.

5 of the BLUE LED'S arrived in the old-style sealed anti-static bag packaging and the other BLUE plus BOTH REDS were packaged differently in a zip-lock baggy with no labels on the LED's themselves.

How do I know for sure that the replacements were all RF-FREE versions?????

Phil,
Thanks again. My interest is with the white spot leds. I will stay tuned to see when they are available. Is there any way I could get an email when they do start shipping?
cbhaws@verizon.net

BUMP!

Has anyone had a chance to install these RF_FREE LED's and test them out? I cannot install my replacements yet as we are in the middle of winter and not going to freeze with my difficult install.

REPORT?

diy_darryl wrote:

BUMP! Has anyone had a chance to install these RF_FREE LED's and test them out? I cannot install my replacements yet as we are in the middle of winter and not going to freeze with my difficult install. REPORT?

You don't have to install them to power them up and see if they cause interference. I'm sure your boat's battery or another 12v power source on the boat isn't under water.

Heck, you could probably test it in your car with a cigg outlet adapter.

I did a quick ghetto test by running the flood that I know caused interference near a regular radio and I got the expected static whenever it was powered up. I then did the same test with the new rf free model and no static!!! I have yet to install them in my car, but I have high hopes

Yay for Oz R&D

Success! I finally got around to installing the new floods as my brake lights; turned on the stereo and hit the brakes... no static! Thanks Oznium for redesigning the floods

Glad to hear its better now :)

Thank you for sticking with us throughout this process.

It's Feb 12th.
Any news on the white floods yet.
Getting ready to start sprucing up the GoldWing before riding season starts.

Hey, thanks for checking

I think we've got

18 Cool White of the old style left, and once those are gone, the new style will start shipping (any day now)

216 Warm White of the old style left, and same deal

Phil wrote:

Hey, thanks for checking I think we've got 18 Cool White of the old style left, and once those are gone, the new style will start shipping (any day now) 216 Warm White of the old style left, and same deal

Does this mean that you are selling the bad ones first?
What is the diff between the two?

One causes interference, the other doesnt. Id imagine.

I guess I will be taking them off my boat and returning them then..... And I JUST finished putting them on too!!!