Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch controlle

Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch controlle

Postby reg_2 on Thu May 24, 2018 4:45 pm

Hi fellow Tritoners

I bought a wiring harness for an LED light bar and I'm failing to understand what some of these wires do.

It has a "auto polarity switch controller" and has a yellow wire labeled "connect to Negative to activate or High beam"

There is no wiring diagram.
Please help.
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby Quinny on Thu May 24, 2018 4:58 pm

Does the yellow wire connect to a relay ? Maybe give us a photo of that ?
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby reg_2 on Thu May 24, 2018 5:47 pm

No it doesn't.
How do I post a picture here?
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby reg_2 on Thu May 24, 2018 5:58 pm

I'm on a mobile
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby Quinny on Thu May 24, 2018 6:05 pm

Have a look at this thread - about a quarter way down the page ...

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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby Quinny on Thu May 24, 2018 6:24 pm

Ahhh - well, that may be an issue - I'll PM my mobile number. Send photos & see where we can go from there ...


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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby Quinny on Thu May 24, 2018 6:38 pm

Ok - lets have a look:

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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby reg_2 on Thu May 24, 2018 6:40 pm

Is that clear or do you need separate pics of each component?
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby Quinny on Thu May 24, 2018 6:41 pm

Maybe full size:

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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby Quinny on Thu May 24, 2018 6:44 pm

The blue Narva looks like a relay ... anyone know what that black box is ?
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby reg_2 on Thu May 24, 2018 6:51 pm

Yes. Blue is relay.
Black is labelled auto polarity switch controller
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby Quinny on Thu May 24, 2018 6:57 pm

I'll wait for other comments, as I've never dealt with LED driving lights before, but I don't think you need it...

All you need to do is pick up the high beam to switch the relay to turn on your light bar ... You'll need a fuse in there somewhere ... I'll see if I can find a wiring diagram ...
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby reg_2 on Thu May 24, 2018 7:07 pm

Thank you Quinny
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby reg_2 on Thu May 24, 2018 7:24 pm

There is a green (striped red) marked negative at the relay end as well
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby reg_2 on Thu May 24, 2018 11:33 pm

Does that câble got something to do with polarity?
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby Quinny on Sat May 26, 2018 5:04 pm

Sorry mate - got a bit distracted with work and a broken lawn mower :roll:

How did you get on ?
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby reg_2 on Sun May 27, 2018 12:23 pm

I got it wired mate. I had to tap into the high beam wire. Once I figured it was, it was easy. Difficult but was routing the cables

Attempting adding couple two led bars (4 inch) for the back. Reversing. I guess you could just tap into the reverse wires?
I'm also looking at putting couple of them on the sports bar, facing backwards to come on with the reverse lights.

Do they have to on switches, like the forward facing driving lights?
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Re: Light bar wiring harness with Auto polarity switch contr

Postby Quinny on Tue May 29, 2018 5:21 pm

reg_2 wrote:I'm also looking at putting couple of them on the sports bar, facing backwards to come on with the reverse lights.

Do they have to on switches, like the forward facing driving lights?


Sorry mate - work again gets in the way ...


Yes, definitely switch them ... You don't really want to light up the surrounding neighbourhood everytime you're reversing your ute ... and as an added bonus, you can turn on your rear facing lights when setting up camp, without the keys in it (and in reverse gear) ...
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