Ok....it is 12:47am Eastern on Saturday Morning and the search function has been disabled by the administrator. So I can't get an answer for my question.

I think that I am the first to do this, but I am not sure because I can't do a search. I just got done making the light around the key hole blue instead of green. I noticed now that the light stays on for a long amount of time. Could someone please go see how long there light stays on after the car has been locked. I can't remember if it used to do this or not, partly because it is now much more noticeable. Thanks in advance

 

I have an '01. I just went and checked and the keyhole light (along with the dome light) turns off as soon as I press the lock button on the remote. I hope this helps you... Sorry if I misinterpreted your question.

 

Without locking, it stays on for a while then will dim and go off.

 

Thank you for checking.......Does anybody with a 2k2 know how long, maybe they are different?

 

I'm 90% sure that's how mine is.

How long though?

 

I have a 2k2 with an aftermarket alarm. I just went outside and disarmed my alarm. Then, I counted in my head... "one thousand one, one thousand two...." I got up to 34 before it turned off. Not the most accurate way, but I hope that this helps.

 

For some reason mine seems to stay on for a pretty long time....I don't know why

 

Okay - here's the methodology I used for each test; this should ensure a complete recycle:
Open and close door, switch ignition to ON, switch ignition back off, open and close door.

If I don't lock the doors, the light stays on exactly 30 seconds after the door is closed. If I DO lock the doors, the light goes off instantly when the doors lock.

Hope this helps - good luck!

 

Its been done before by a 4th gen, he had all his leds blue, looked pretty sweet.

 

How hard was it to change this out to blue?

 

mine has been blue for almost 2 years...

 

Not too hard if you are familar with how current,voltage, and resitors work. I used a mutlimeter to measure the voltage at 7.5 across the socket where the bulb is plugged in. Then using some simply math, I figureed out that I needed a 330 OHM, 1/4 watt resistor (5% tolerance). I cut off the socket that the old bulb plugged into and just wired ground to ground and hot to hot. with the resistor soldered on one of the leads on the LED(the long one is always positive). Then i just put it the difuser and put everything back together. It took probably 45 min. for the entire project, if you have all the materials.

The reason that I think that the LED stays lit up, is that since it pulls so much less power, that the car doesn't ever completely shut it off. Also, I don't really care, because of the battery saver feature.

 

I think the it stays lit longer because you have swapped out an inductive load (bulb) for a resistive load (resistor and diode).

I agree that inductor (bulb) may have been some part of a charge or discharge ciruit that reached a certain value
Tau (secs)= L (inductance of the bulb) / R (total resistance)

5 Tau is the value in time that it would take a voltage source to fully charge or discharge.

If it bothers you enough to want to do something reconnect the bulb in parallel with the circuit u added. Only thing is the light may now go off a little faster.


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Bulb inductance lies in the order of uH and wires have much bigger inductance but all of that are very tiny effects in seconds scale. Those 5T in this case take .01 fraction of the second. His guess is right if he didn't make mistake and wired LED to some constantly powered wire by accident. Strange enough but connecting bulb in parallel to the circuit with resistor and LED can actually help for the different reason, though: bulb has very unlinear resistance which becomes at least 10 times less when it is not lit. It can "sink" any leak current and prevent LED from glowing.

 

I don't really see any harm in letting it just run until the battery saver cuts it off. We determined that the light is pulling approximately 120 mW. So that isn't very much. If anybody sees any harm in letting it run the please let me know. Also does everyone elses light stay on while they are driving.

 

My light does not stay on while driving.