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OK, NOW I have to go find a Woody to hang off the rear ladder! My grown boys loved those movies!
Woody has been hanging on to our last 4 trailers over the last 10 - 12 years. We bought him on the way to a campout in the Sierras with our kids and grandsons. They were little guys and thought it was so cool and of course we made up a whole story to go alog with it. Our grandsons are 20 and 16 now but they still pull his string when they see him and crack up when he says, "I've got a snake in my boot!"
Paul and Deb Cervone
2022 Imagine XLS 22MLE
2021 Imagine XLS 17MKE - SOLD; 2015 Reflection 337RLS - SOLD
2016 GMC Denali 3500 SRW
Dude Most strange outcome. The LED strips work fine (turn chasing from the middle, running, brake, and reverse) with the ignition off, but as soon as I turn the ignition on I lose the brake and turn signal on both sides. I checked with my meter and I am getting the same voltage at the lights regardless of whether it is running or not. All I can think of is there is some noise the engine is introducing that is tripping up the circuit in the LEDs that detects the flash for turn signal vs brake. I am going to have to scope the output and see whats going on, but we are supposed to leave for a trip Tuesday so it is going to have to wait. Its a shame, they look really nice when they are working.
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Neil Citro
2018 Reflection 28BH Pepwave
2019 F350 6.7L Long Bed Crew Cab
I suspect your meter is "lying" to you. When testing the negative lead on your meter is attached to a good ground thus the meter "sees" 12V.
What I think is going on is with the ignition on the wiring is not "seeing" the truck's negative (in the 7-pin plug). A quick check could be done by stringing a negative wire from the LEDs to the negative connection coming from the Bargman plug. (I forget if you have a MICTUNING box setup.)
Could be wrong...but easy thing to check.
Howard
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Howard & Francine
2017 Ford F-350 DRW, '19 315RLTSPlus
I suspect your meter is "lying" to you. When testing the negative lead on your meter is attached to a good ground thus the meter "sees" 12V.
What I think is going on is with the ignition on the wiring is not "seeing" the truck's negative (in the 7-pin plug). A quick check could be done by stringing a negative wire from the LEDs to the negative connection coming from the Bargman plug. (I forget if you have a MICTUNING box setup.)
Could be wrong...but easy thing to check.
Howard
That's possible, but the regular square Bargman LED lights continue to work fine through all this, and they're all paralleled together. My next step when I have time is to run a long lead up to the trucks trailer connection and tie directly to the feed there (ground and turn signal). I do have the Mictunning box.
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Neil Citro
2018 Reflection 28BH Pepwave
2019 F350 6.7L Long Bed Crew Cab
ncitrosorry your running into issues, and howson is right. The ground plays tricks on you, and it sounds like some testing is in order in. Keep us posted what your finding turn out to be.
2020 Grand Design - 2600RB - Pulling with a 2005 Dodge 2500 5.9 Cummins 4x4. (Texas)
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Neil Citro
2018 Reflection 28BH Pepwave
2019 F350 6.7L Long Bed Crew Cab
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