Several months ago I installed a set of LED headlights in my JK and found out that they put out alot of noise if you are running a 2 meter radio for daily communications.
The RF was so bad that I had 3/4 scale noise on the radio.
I experimented with alot of different ideas that would decrease stray RF on a ham radio.
Tried installing ferrite chokes on the power leads, installed a noise suppression capacitor inline, already had the power leads directly to the battery, grounded the radio with braded grounding strap, grounded the antenna coax shield. Eventually I narrowed the noise down to the LED power module. I disassembled the module and found that the circuit was not filtered well enough and the LED heat sink fan motor was extremely noisy. I then grounded the fan motor chassis and packed the module with RTV to stop any arcing.
None of these ideas provided any positive results.
Finally contacted the seller who then called the manufacturer (Chinese overseas company). Talked to them about the quality of the fan motor and the power circuits. Their response was... to fix this problem would require changing to better components. This would increase the price of each item and the problem identified is rare enough that they do not want to impact their profit margin.
Since nothing could be done to resolve the issue I had these lights; I returned them to the seller who had been authorized by the manufacturer to provide me a full refund including shipping.
The LED lights do put out a tremendous amount of light, but was not worth the loss of communications.
What I am trying to say is.... IF you decide you want a set of LED lights; you should consider trying a set before you purchase them.
