The resistor worked out great, no more glow when dome lights are off.

 

I replaced my travel trailer dome lights with LEDs and I get no glow.

 

Mine fade down with the dome light...
there set up w/ the doors open the door leds on, close door
leds fade down and go off.
jeff

 

Mine won't go completely off either

 

You need a resistor wired in

 

merged two threads on the same subject.

 

My LED interior lights are glow while I'm driving and when the car is off. How do I go about installing a resistor so this won't happen?

 

Did anyone ever make a post on how to install a resistor for the dome light LED issue?

 

CANBUS compliant LEDs shouldn't do this, as they have resistors built in (I'll find out for sure in few days when mine arrive).

I did read that the current causing the glow comes from the dimmer switch in the waterfall. It's not enough to power indandescent bulbs, but any residual current will make LEDs glow very dim.

 

Today I got my dome lights that I ordered from our forum sponsor, PL175CA.

They are quite fussy about how they're plugged in, I didn't get any of them to work until after 2+ tries each and talking to their customer service live chat. Then they all worked. Later when I was taking them out in the dark (read on for why), the front one flickered as the dome lens fell out of the bezel. Weird.

I put them in just before dusk. At that time, they seemed to fade all the way off. Three hours later in the full dark, I went to check again. Sure enough, all three stayed lit at somewhere less than 5%, even while driving. So I pulled them out, in the dark. Interestingly, after I swapped one stock bulb back in, the two remaining LEDs faded all the way off like I expected they should in the first place.

So now I'm also looking for where/how to put the resistor.