Cabin lights?
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Did the lights work before with regular incandescent bulbs? If you plug one of those in, does the light work?
Led bulbs usually (but not always) are polarity dependent. The bulbs I got for mine required the wiring in all the fixtures to be reversed. Incandescent bulbs don't care, 12v is 12v.
Did the lights work before with regular incandescent bulbs? If you plug one of those in, does the light work?
Led bulbs usually (but not always) are polarity dependent. The bulbs I got for mine required the wiring in all the fixtures to be reversed. Incandescent bulbs don't care, 12v is 12v.
Pull the wires on one of them and check voltage with a meter. If you have voltage then reverse the wires and see if they turn on. If no voltage then it could be the main light breaker is tripped, bad or not wired correctly. One more thing.....not all led lights are 12v, they could have installed the wrong led light fixtures. Or you could call the PO and ask him if the lights worked when he had the boat 
your Led lights as said are polarity +- found this when we updated some were the right way some were not but instead of hacking more wiring out we had reversible LED stick on white light panels with the screw in adapter from automotive socket so I just switched polarity and whamo light!
Switch the wires behind the non working fixtures to verify test with volt meter center pin in base should be RED + out side of base Negative - black probe,
good luck man we love all our LED lighting on our old girl lights on all night and still lots of juice left prior to recharge!
good luck!
Brad
Switch the wires behind the non working fixtures to verify test with volt meter center pin in base should be RED + out side of base Negative - black probe,
good luck man we love all our LED lighting on our old girl lights on all night and still lots of juice left prior to recharge!
good luck!
Brad
I've been wanting to install LED lighting to save battery power, but I've heard some horror stories about nearby lightning strikes or power shorts blowing them out, permanently. Plus I'm waiting for the prices to go down some more, as they're darn expensive.
I dunno, I'd be a little more worried about the expensive electronics than a bunch of led bulbs in the high voltage electrical scenarios.
I run LED cabin lights. I bought about a dozen of them for $1 per with free shipping from china. They are not as bright as the bulbs they replace but use less power and I still have the real bulbs in my spares box if they start failing.
The only thing I found it you may have to reverse the polarity of the fixture wiring for the ultra cheap LEDs to work.
The only thing I found it you may have to reverse the polarity of the fixture wiring for the ultra cheap LEDs to work.