(12-12-2012, 07:04 PM)Niall Wrote:(08-12-2012, 02:30 PM)nauest Wrote: Interesting point about the bsi, I did think about that as I knew it was a digital circuit. I checked and the interior lights can take 4 or 5 watt T10 bulbs, and seeing as my current courtesy bulbs are 2x 4 watts and the LEDS use less than 1 watt, still within the max rating. Luckily for us filament bulbs are horrendously inefficient! btw, the LEDS in the tailgate that sam linked are much more powerful than the ones under the mirrors.
I figure as long as you don't go over 10 watts combined lighting you are fine.
Either way there must be some sort of protection, if one of the interior bulbs was shorted (quite possible) it would blow your ECU? I doubt even peugeot are that stupid!
no it would short your bsi. At best, it may blow a fuse. at worst, could destroy your bsi.
Why would it blow it if I haven't gone over the maximum rating for the interior bulbs? Rating = 5w + 5w = 10w, my set up currently uses 4 + 4 + 0.9 +0.9 = 9.8w less than peugeot say you can fit.
Besides as I said earlier, I deliberately shorted out the interior lighting BSi on a scrapyard 306 HDi to check, it did no damage and automatically reset after a while. The courtesy light system (Plus everything else I checked, engine, cl, ews etc) still works on that car. You cant beat a bit of research in the field! The BSi must have overload protection.
My car has also been working with the system for a while, no issues at all.
Although I cant be held responsible for damage for anyone else who tries it
Sorry, I just realized you where referring to if the bulb shorted.
Apparently not! It didn't even blow a fuse, I guess the overload system is faster than the fuse blow time. Could have been a fluke though.
I still reckon under 10 watts is perfectly safe, i.e. adding only 2 1 watt LED packs or less.