Grille Light Wiring Advice..Please look and provide insight
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What flash pattern are planning? Your question suggests simultaneous.
For starters you'll want to ground them all together to 1 lead, add in a disconnect between the combined connection and the ground connection to the vehicle frame.
Your flasher selection- simul or alternating and desired pattern determines the remaining connections.
For starters you'll want to ground them all together to 1 lead, add in a disconnect between the combined connection and the ground connection to the vehicle frame.
Your flasher selection- simul or alternating and desired pattern determines the remaining connections.
Excellent choice.
Crimp or solder & heat shrink all of your connections. Your alt flasher will have 2 outputs- extend each output wire, add in a disconnect plug, combine the opposite 2 upper/lower grill light positive wires to one flasher output, the other opposite 2 upper/lower grill light positive wires to the other flasher output.
I think Chiefops things you're using an external flasher. You may be, but it doesn't seem that way to me. You'll have to connect your sync wires together. What I usually do is if they are too far apart or will be visible behind the grille, I'll just extend them so I can run them along a frame or something where they can be hidden and connect them all at whatever location they come to where they're nice and hidden.
Depends on the manufacture, but as a general rule yes, tie all the sync wires together, after you have set the pattern.
Being in NewEngland, anything I put in a grille or the exterior of the vehicle is soldered and heat shrunk.. set your patterns on each head so they are all the same on each light. Then tie your sync wires together, and run a power and ground from the grille to wherever your switched power is... I typically like to ground my connections to a common point inside the vehicle to prevent any sort of weather related corosion, and keeps all my grounds central to one spot, just in case there is ever a failure, your not checking multiple ground conections.