tacomabanga19861986
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well my setup goes as this, whelen 4head 75w i think power supply, whelen grill strobes, and whelen strobe haw's in front wired to front output, whelen haw strobes in tail lights off rear output
ok this is weird but maby yall might can figure it out, but from what im thinking the power wire isn't big enough
i have a fed sig 6 switch swichbox, 1 goes to dashlight and rear window lights (4 head fed sig riccochet power supply), 2 goes to side window strobes (whelen dashking 2000), 3 goes to front output on power supply, 4 goes to rear output on power supply, 5 is for traffic advisor when i get it in, and 6 is for main power to whelen power supply
ok to wire it i used 14guage security wire like this 14 AWG 2C Carol Architectural Speaker Cable 1000 ft. CL3R 100-738
switch 1 i used the pos output on it for my strobe and grounded to car, splitted the wire off switch 2 to both of my side window lights, 3 and 4 are useing the same wire (red 3, black 4) didn't need ground for trigger wires, 5 is extra, and 6 is a heavy duty relay activated output, so i wired it to the power supply
each output on the switch box is fused @ 20, maby 25amps, i have a main switch ran through a relay to cut on the switchbox (and same switch turns on my leds on toolbox), relay is being fed by 8guage power wire fused i think at 80amps, and what knot
ok my problem is, when i activate my front switch for front strobes they are bright as would be, but when i switch on the rear strobes the front ones dim to about half it would seem, now i did have my 14guage going to regular strobe cable for inputs, but i put a amp pin on the wire and plugged them straight into power supply and same thing happined
it does the same if rear is on and i then cut on fronts
so my question is, what size wire should i run to my strobe power supply? i thought 14guage copper would be good enough, its rigid and what knot but i dunno
im thinking about putting either 12guage or 10guage to it to see if that might be the case
now my power supply has a hi/low wire but its not activated, should i try to see if that might have something to do with it? its not even hooked up so i dunno
everything works as it should, just wondering if its the power supply?
im going to be purchasing a whelen 6head off of paul on here sometime to replace this one with, it might just be that its old, but why would it be right when one output is on, and then go dim with other on?
now i do have 16guage strobe cable so i dont think thats the problem
im kinda new to the "install" game with this stuff, but ive been installing car stereo stuff for about 10yrs so i know a little on 12v stuff, and have tinkerd with lights forever, but now getting back in the game
thankx for the help
ok this is weird but maby yall might can figure it out, but from what im thinking the power wire isn't big enough
i have a fed sig 6 switch swichbox, 1 goes to dashlight and rear window lights (4 head fed sig riccochet power supply), 2 goes to side window strobes (whelen dashking 2000), 3 goes to front output on power supply, 4 goes to rear output on power supply, 5 is for traffic advisor when i get it in, and 6 is for main power to whelen power supply
ok to wire it i used 14guage security wire like this 14 AWG 2C Carol Architectural Speaker Cable 1000 ft. CL3R 100-738
switch 1 i used the pos output on it for my strobe and grounded to car, splitted the wire off switch 2 to both of my side window lights, 3 and 4 are useing the same wire (red 3, black 4) didn't need ground for trigger wires, 5 is extra, and 6 is a heavy duty relay activated output, so i wired it to the power supply
each output on the switch box is fused @ 20, maby 25amps, i have a main switch ran through a relay to cut on the switchbox (and same switch turns on my leds on toolbox), relay is being fed by 8guage power wire fused i think at 80amps, and what knot
ok my problem is, when i activate my front switch for front strobes they are bright as would be, but when i switch on the rear strobes the front ones dim to about half it would seem, now i did have my 14guage going to regular strobe cable for inputs, but i put a amp pin on the wire and plugged them straight into power supply and same thing happined
it does the same if rear is on and i then cut on fronts
so my question is, what size wire should i run to my strobe power supply? i thought 14guage copper would be good enough, its rigid and what knot but i dunno
im thinking about putting either 12guage or 10guage to it to see if that might be the case
now my power supply has a hi/low wire but its not activated, should i try to see if that might have something to do with it? its not even hooked up so i dunno
everything works as it should, just wondering if its the power supply?
im going to be purchasing a whelen 6head off of paul on here sometime to replace this one with, it might just be that its old, but why would it be right when one output is on, and then go dim with other on?
now i do have 16guage strobe cable so i dont think thats the problem
im kinda new to the "install" game with this stuff, but ive been installing car stereo stuff for about 10yrs so i know a little on 12v stuff, and have tinkerd with lights forever, but now getting back in the game
thankx for the help
