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You trunk light should be 12V. The replacement incandescent bulb is a Syvania 12V. If you change to LED then there should be change in voltage. It will just be a less wattage draw for the LED bulb. Have you tried hooking the volt meter up to the leads on the trunk? There is no step-down transformer that is installed in the car.
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it could be the polarity when you plugged it in like punishmentcycle said, but what gets me is the voltage on the old bulb.
Here is a link to a direct replacement LED to the incandescent. Factory bulb is a 211...
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...on_4410-x9.htm
In the link above they will operate in a range but the lower the voltage the less lumens it will produce.
Here is a link to a direct replacement LED to the incandescent. Factory bulb is a 211...
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...on_4410-x9.htm
In the link above they will operate in a range but the lower the voltage the less lumens it will produce.
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I am at work so I can't at the current moment. You should be able to take your voltmeter to where the actual bulb plugs in and measure the voltage. How were you measuring voltage across the removed bulb if it was not plugged in?
If you are not getting atleast 12V across the leads located in the trunk then you either have a bad ground somewhere or a previous owner put some type of in-line resistor in there somewhere.
If you are not getting atleast 12V across the leads located in the trunk then you either have a bad ground somewhere or a previous owner put some type of in-line resistor in there somewhere.
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I am at work so I can't at the current moment. You should be able to take your voltmeter to where the actual bulb plugs in and measure the voltage. How were you measuring voltage across the removed bulb if it was not plugged in?
If you are not getting atleast 12V across the leads located in the trunk then you either have a bad ground somewhere or a previous owner put some type of in-line resistor in there somewhere.
If you are not getting atleast 12V across the leads located in the trunk then you either have a bad ground somewhere or a previous owner put some type of in-line resistor in there somewhere.
When I get home I'm going to test the interior lights and see what I come up with.
Last edited by Stone17; 12-08-2010 at 01:56 PM.
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I've always wondered about that. Actually when I did the interior swap the trunk was the last one I did. It didn't work but I was aggrevated by then so I left it alone when it didn't work for me.
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There still to me seems to be something else going on in there, especially if you say the housing was melted.
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It's hard to imagine GM stepping down the voltage, simply because that would cost money.