NEED HELP Recon LED Tailgate Light Bar
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Thanks guys! I appreciate the help!
BigBlueEdge, LU229 thanks for the photo exactly what i needed...
Brummo, I ended up buying another harness yesterday and i spliced it into my existing harness and still the light bar didn't work properly I've come to the conclusion that it was broken when they sent it to me. So i sent them an email today explain everything so hopefully they can help me out and send me a new one or something...
I got it at the end of January and it had been sitting in my room until this past weekend when i installed it and it didn't look damage when i took it out of the box...
Kind of disappointed that i spent my money on it and spent the whole weekend trying to get it to work for it to be broken... Oh well..
Thanks again for the help guys.
BigBlueEdge, LU229 thanks for the photo exactly what i needed...
Brummo, I ended up buying another harness yesterday and i spliced it into my existing harness and still the light bar didn't work properly I've come to the conclusion that it was broken when they sent it to me. So i sent them an email today explain everything so hopefully they can help me out and send me a new one or something...
I got it at the end of January and it had been sitting in my room until this past weekend when i installed it and it didn't look damage when i took it out of the box...
Kind of disappointed that i spent my money on it and spent the whole weekend trying to get it to work for it to be broken... Oh well..
Thanks again for the help guys.
Mine works flawlessly.
You need to check your truck wiring. Changing the plug end on the truck side doesnt mean the problem isnt elsewhere's such as at your driver side taillight.
Buy a $10 tester and see if its your truck end. If you own a multimeter you can test each pin as well.
If you want to test the light bar, take an end just like you wired to your truck and hook that side to a battery 12v one at a time and watch your lightbar as you change pins. Just make sure the ground is hooked up at all times or you;'ll get nothing.
Blaming the lightbar before properly testing the circuits out isnt the solution.
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Also keep in mind, if the LED`s are hooked up backwards, they`ll give you a false sense that it dosent work. With LED`s, if it dont work when hooking it up straight to the power source, swap the wires, and then they should light up. Trying that might determine a more properly diagnoised issue with the light bar itself. LED`s either work or they dont, but they can only work if the power is hooked up properly one way to make them to work. If hooked up backwards, LED`s wont work no matter what.
