Yet another LED marker lamp issue

[rubiconron]

I am having issues with what I thought was a relatively easy light swap. I am installing the poison spyder 3 wire marker lights on my 99tj. My plan is to eliminate the 2wire side markers. So I have the front 3 wire marker/blinker that I want to wire up to the new led 3 wire. The blinkers work fine when everything is connected. No marker lamps. If I unplug the blinker wire, the marker lamp lights up. Currently the old 3 wire bulb is still connected and working. I used the 2 wires from the side marker for blink/marker and wired the ground to the grille behind the headlamp.
Should I be using blink/marker wire from further back in the harness?

 

[lBasket]

Wow lucky you, dude just did a pretty good explanation of this this morning, maybe it helps

Post in thread 'LED lights and rewiring? Various threads have different answers'
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads...ads-have-different-answers.82658/post-1660405

 

[rubiconron]

Wow lucky you, dude just did a pretty good explanation of this this morning, maybe it helps

Post in thread 'LED lights and rewiring? Various threads have different answers'
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads...ads-have-different-answers.82658/post-1660405

I have read that. Everyone seems to say the same thing "the 3 wire is an easy solution" "the problem is when you try to make the 2 wire system do both". So my question is this: if I remove the 2 wire system from the equation and cut my factory harness prior to the split (for front/side lights)....I only have 4 wires. Ground, marker, turn, fog. Why can't I wire the 3 wires that are not fog to my new 3 wire led bulb? It should essentially be the same as the 3 wire front marker/turn. Why do my marker lights not work when everything is connected?

 

[rubiconron]

Help??

 

[machoheadgames]

You sure you didn’t get your marker and blinker wires mixed up? Your description is how I would wire them. Black/yellow goes to the running lamp wire and the colorful one (I forget the different colors per sides over the year) is blinker. Obviously ground is good already.


you shouldn’t need to grab the signal from anywhere further upstream or anything, you are simply getting running lamp and blinker signals in parallel off of the front lamp, same as the front lamp gets them.

You could try splicing in further upstream but I don’t see why or how it would help.

 

[rubiconron]

You sure you didn’t get your marker and blinker wires mixed up? Your description is how I would wire them. Black/yellow goes to the running lamp wire and the colorful one (I forget the different colors per sides over the year) is blinker. Obviously ground is good already.


you shouldn’t need to grab the signal from anywhere further upstream or anything, you are simply getting running lamp and blinker signals in parallel off of the front lamp, same as the front lamp gets them.

You could try splicing in further upstream but I don’t see why or how it would help.

Thanks for the response. Feeling lonely here..... I'm not mixing up colors. Like you said the black wire with yellow tracer is running lamp. I have it wired to the white wire on the led. The gray wire is blinker. It is wired to the red wire on the led. Black is ground. Here is a picture.

 

[machoheadgames]

Thanks for the response. Feeling lonely here..... I'm not mixing up colors. Like you said the black wire with yellow tracer is running lamp. I have it wired to the white wire on the led. The gray wire is blinker. It is wired to the red wire on the led. Black is ground. Here is a picture.

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Any chance you got a faulty LED and haven’t tried the other one yet? It definitely should be functioning correctly with how you have it set up.

 

[CreepinDeth]

Read the last line on the instructions in the picture

 

[rubiconron]

Read the last line on the instructions in the picture

Yes. I have the flasher. It flashes normally not fast.

 

[rubiconron]

Any chance you got a faulty LED and haven’t tried the other one yet? It definitely should be functioning correctly with how you have it set up.

I'll double check it.