Blinking tail lights with Land Rover

[Der Sand]

Hello,
I am a new member of this forum and I have a problem here in Colorado. We have a new trailer which we bought this past year and it has LED tail lights. Our new car, Land Rover (2007) seems to give the tail lights some sort of pulse and the lights always blink. I have contacted Airstream in reagards to this and they were helpful, but the fix didn't help. Any one else have any trouble like this? Any ideas? While it is probably a good thing to have them blink, safety and all they still blink when the car is off!

Thank you,

Dave
Colorado

[overlander63]

What kind of brake controller do you have?
I have seen some that pulse a small amount of voltage to make sure everything is still connected. Yours may be doing the same, and since the LEDs use much less current, they may blink.

[lewster]

Originally Posted by Der Sand

Hello,
I am a new member of this forum and I have a problem here in Colorado. We have a new trailer which we bought this past year and it has LED tail lights. Our new car, Land Rover (2007) seems to give the tail lights some sort of pulse and the lights always blink. I have contacted Airstream in reagards to this and they were helpful, but the fix didn't help. Any one else have any trouble like this? Any ideas? While it is probably a good thing to have them blink, safety and all they still blink when the car is off!

Thank you,

Dave
Colorado

Dave,

You're getting a feedback pulse loop that is energizing your LEDs in the trailer. They are VERY sensitive to voltage fluctuations, and this is what you're seeing. You need a powered isolating tail light converter attached to the tail lights of the TV, then fed into the trailer. I've used them several times in similar situations. I don't recall the brand, but let me know and I'll look it up for you.

[Jim Clark]

Use the search function, this has been addressed before.

Good Luck Jim

[Devoman]

I have a VW Touareg and it does the same thing though it does nothing to the vehicle.I think it has something to do with the setup in the vehicle itself with the light sensors and DLR Lighting setup as well.Is it very faint but just strong enough to see it.When you turn off the vehicle does it still pulse until your vehicle turns the power off.What I mean is when your headlights and interior lights and stuff turn off or does it keep pulsing.It really does not hurt the vehicle at all.