Oracle Headlights with auto stop/start?

[madesicc88]

I’ve had the Oracle headlights for a couple months now, I was always curious if the stop/start would damage the LED drivers at all. Yesterday I noticed they had a small flicker while at idle when the engine was running, then the stop start engaged and when the engine turned back on they had a must more noticeable flicker, that’s the first time I’ve seen this, could the aggressive ASS be damaging led drivers? I had halogen headlights before and I was wondering if I should change my lights to LED through JScan.

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[Hootbro]

I had halogen headlights before and I was wondering if I should change my lights to LED through JScan.

You should change the settings to LED in Jscan. It will set the BCM drivers up to supply the correct voltage supply for the LED's.

In halogen mode, the BCM is using a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal that allows for lower voltage use of the Halogen lights to unload the alternator so it does not have to work as hard. Hooking up LED's to a PWM signal will induce a flicker because the LED's are generally not tuned for a PWM square wave voltage signal.

 

[madesicc88]

Cool I figured I should do that, just never did, I’ll change it this evening, thanks

 

[Hootbro]

Cool I figured I should do that, just never did, I’ll change it this evening, thanks

Before you change anything, run a "Advance Scan" with your Jscan app and I bet there is stored codes in the BCM for the light circuit due to the driver issue. Clear them, do your change and a reset of the BCM ECU and they should not come back.

 

[mdyucca]

Interesting. While running the Oracle Oculus headlights I have maintained the original Halogen light setting for the headlights. I figured Oracle had some electronic device (diode) built into the Oculus headlight assembly to ensure the lights worked properly and there would be no need to change the Jeeps LED/Halogen headlight setting. Also, since installing the Oculus headlights have had no issues.

 

[Kevin_D]

You should still change the headlights to LED with JScan or some such for optimal operation of the lights.
Also, I don't know if Oculus uses them, but if you change to LED settings, you can most probably do away with any, "CAN Buss adapters," that are attached. A, "CAN Buss adapter," is just a load resistor.

Kevin

 

[Blitzinger]

Interesting to run across this thread as I had my Oracle Bi-LED headlights installed not 3 weeks ago and noticed today that my driver-side headlight HALO wasn’t on while the passenger one was.

I am taking it to the shop that installed it this Friday. I ran it again earlier and both lights were on so not sure what’s up. Maybe the halo isn’t activating while the main light is off but is on when main light auto is on?

 

[madesicc88]

I got my settings changed in JScan so I will see if the little flickering happens again. It’s not every time, I have only noticed it once or twice. We will see I guess.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

could the aggressive ASS be damaging led drivers?

Aggressive? Damaging?
Auto stop/start has nothing to do with anything lighting and does no damage to anything electrical any more than if you shut things off and started it again.
The lights are voltage regulated in any case.....
Great info from Hootbro on the regulation of the lighting - but there's apparently a lot of really bad, false info out there on other stuff.

 

[ORACLElights]

Interesting to run across this thread as I had my Oracle Bi-LED headlights installed not 3 weeks ago and noticed today that my driver-side headlight HALO wasn’t on while the passenger one was.

I am taking it to the shop that installed it this Friday. I ran it again earlier and both lights were on so not sure what’s up. Maybe the halo isn’t activating while the main light is off but is on when main light auto is on?

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