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Why do my bed lights not work in the cold?

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Old Nov 4, 2007 | 10:44 PM
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The past couple of days my bed lights have not been working, well some of them work will others do not, in the cold wheather. Particularly the morning and night. While they do work when its warmer outside, like mid day.

This has me puzzled.

It is not a certain set of the LED's either, it is a random few that do it in the cold. BTW they are run off of two wires in a chain, one for each rail.
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Old Nov 4, 2007 | 10:46 PM
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I dont blame them. I dont like working when its cold. Or in the mornings or at night. Mid day is nice though.
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Old Nov 4, 2007 | 10:50 PM
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Yea when I don't need the damn things to work.
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Old Nov 6, 2007 | 03:57 PM
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Where and what kind of bed lighting do you have? Is it a hard hook up, and do you have any pix of them lit-up?
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Old Nov 6, 2007 | 04:06 PM
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is it certan led's or the whole light that wont work?
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Old Nov 6, 2007 | 04:48 PM
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It's a Recon kit, and when they don't work it is one of these that don't work at all.

Here are the lights on, and another.

A friend of mines dad said it was probably a resistor not being soldered very well and the cold contracts the wires or something to where they don't touch very well, if at all.
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