Wiring in Magnetic LED Brake/Turn Lamps - Crashed the Whole Right Side of the Bus

[meteoricide]

In the 2004 IC 3000 buses, they run separate circuits for Left and Right Stop and Running Lamps - also on those circuits are the left side and right side dome lights. They are resettable circuit breakers instead of fuses ! The only problem is - the circuit breaker isn't tripped. Bypassed it - still no lights. It's not the cb ... so what the $%^&^%? Checked grounds - all solid. Reverse installed the LED kit - still no right side brake or run or dome lights. I'm a Navy trained Nuclear Power rated Electronic Technician which I followed with 10 years of electronic manufacturing of medical instruments and hybrid microcircuits ... but I'm stumped by this skoolie!

[CaptSquid]

That's the problem! You're a back-aft ETR, not an up-front ETN.

[meteoricide]

can't live with 'em ... can't learn to swim

Well Cap ... for the moment I just ran a bridge wire so that the right brake/run light gets lit by the left. Since the district had kindly converted the brake/park's to LEDs there's no reason that should overload the left's 20 A circuit. It's poor engineering but I can't find the real issue yet ... I'm stepping away from it

[CaptSquid]

Obviously, I rode the boats (SSBN-659) in the NavCtr. I was also qualified QMOW.

[meteoricide]

What an interesting boat. I never knew they made a Will Rodgers. My last station was aboard CVA-61 Ranger. As QMOW you must have uncanny situational awareness in 3 dimensional spaces ... a rare gift!

[CaptSquid]

Only one and she was turned into razor blades a long time ago. Our CO (Gold Crew) got to four-stripes but never got a fat stripe because he made some statements that kinda screwed his career.

[meteoricide]

My first wife went to crypto school up there in Holy Loch.

[JDOnTheGo]

Originally Posted by meteoricide

The only problem is - the circuit breaker isn't tripped. Bypassed it - still no lights. It's not the cb ... so what the $%^&^%?

This is probably far too simple but I'll ask anyway... Since LED's are polarity sensitive, any chance that it is backwards??

[BlackJohn]

Do you have continuity in those wires you are sorting out? Any voltage there without bypassing it?

John

[meteoricide]

Good question ... there seems to be 8 volts on a black wire sticking out of the hole where the right side tag light was cannibalized. I dont even know what circuit those are on


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