greenhornet73

Should have tried that and in the first place to at least rule that out but didn’t feel like lugging it down to the basement

Could hooking it up to my boat’s “house“ battery provide the juice to make it all work?

All 3 lights are LED and all light up if individually connected to power but when all are connected, just the spotlight runs. If i disconnect it, the 2 stern lights light up

To clarify my madness, I connected the two stern lights at that end so one set of wires ran to the butt connectors to the spotlight and main line

I ran them parallel I believe since I used butt connectors to connect the spotlight wires and stern lights to the main power wires. So 2 wires crimped in one end and the main on the other end. Did one like that for the positive and one for the negative.

If connected to power separately all the lights work but connected in- line just the spotlight works. Before I left the house this morning I reversed the quick connects for the spotlight, positive to negative, and the spotlight turned off but the sterns turned on. Later I will try reversing the pigtails to the stern lights instead and see if that works. Glad to hear I may not have to run new wire through the t top frame all over again. I’ll post later how I make out. Thanks so much.

Wow that would be awesome if that’s all it takes. I’ll try it when I get home and let you know. Thanks!

I am pre- wiring my t top to install on my center console and just hit a bump. I connected my 2 low draw LED stern lights with 16 gauge wire and pigtailed them to my LED spotlight at the bow end that is on 14 gauge wire to create one circuit on a toggle switch. Anyways, once I finished the splicing I connected it to my little portable 12v battery and only the spotlight worked. When I disconnected just the spotlight using the quick disconnects I had wired in, the stern lights turned on. Is the reason because of the 2 different wires used or is the spotlight drawing too many amps leaving the others dry? I have more 14 gauge wire I could rewire the stern lights with if need be but not sure if that would be a solution? Any advice would be really appreciated so I can be up and running as soon as I can do the t top install.

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