Whelen Light Bars

[Firstresponder25]

I picked up a couple of older Whelen Edge and LED Liberty bars the other day. Tried hooking them up to a converter and would not work. Tried hooking them up to a car battery and battery charger with still no luck. Looking for suggestions.

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

Most Whelen lights require constant power to primary red wire + and the ground typically black. The other wires in the bundle are typically trigger wires for specific functions. Best advice is to try and pull a model number and lookup a wiring schematic, so you do not accidentally blow something up .

 

[Firstresponder25]

Great, thank you!

 

[Firstresponder25]

Tried the wiring schematic and still cannot get these bars to work. So, I am hooking the red to power and black to ground and get nothing, any ideas what I am doing wrong?

 

[StEaLtH2]

How many wires are there? Can we get some pics to try to help you decipher what steps to take

 

[Firstresponder25]

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

So as I said previously the Red/Black wires will energize the bar when connected to a power supply. Functions are triggered by applying voltage to the smaller bundle of wires individually to perform other functions. I think I have a YT video on a liberty bar I was working on.. try this..

 

[Firstresponder25]

I have tried just that, Red/Black wire, then the smaller ones with no luck. Unfortunately, your video does not show how or which wires you hooked up.

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

I have tried just that, Red/Black wire, then the smaller ones with no luck. Unfortunately, your video does not show how or which wires you hooked up.

I would use the video as a reference, I do talk about wiring colors and what they did during the video. However, with that in mind.. your light may not be wired the exact same way. Which is why I said find a wiring diagram for your specific model. For the rest, I will leave to the Whelen folks here.

I hope you get it working..