Installed Fog Lights-Not Working Kubota 500

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tide1996

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Hey Guys,

I bought some small rectangular 55watt fog lights to go on my Kubota RTV 500. The instructions stated to hook directly battery, instead I used the winch's positive on the contactor lead and grounded the negative wire. As you guessed the lights would not work :mad:. The lights came with a lighted rocker switch. The switch lights up when switched on indicating power is going to the lights. So when that method didn't work I ran the positive directly to the battery as the instructions indicated, same results as above:confused:. I used my voltmeter to test and I'm getting power using both setups above. I'm thinking the lights or rocker switch was defective. I don't think the 55 watt lights would be to much for the 500, if so would it keep the lights from lighting? Any opinions would be appreciative.

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Check the ground too the metal should be shiney or at least bright and no paint. A poor ground will also make one tail light etc dimmer than the other etc. If that doesn't help double check the connections on the wire ends. Poor grounds are the source of a lot of grief. Good Luck ,Bordercollie
 
You may want to by pass the switch and test the light with some temporary wire directly from the battery to see if the lights will come on. Bordercollie
 
I rewired our old goose neck trailer because some of the lights were damaged ,wires broke etc. Well the dang copper wire was so small in the new set , it couldn't even be twisted etc. It looked like dental floss . This wire came in the light kit. and I can tell you that I spent hours fooling with this chinese set. the splicers in the set were so weak that didn't work etc . After I realized I was dealing with .. ,well you know, I just kept the lens , threw it out and got a better quality set . I quickly put the new set on and found a shiny place behind a factory bolt and made sure there was no paint ,scraped it a bit and hooked the ground there. Main thing, the ground has to be to the frame because the battery is grounded to the frame. On my '05 900 the accessory lights have a rubber bumper to protect the frame so since those u bolts don't actually touch the frame ,it wouldn't work for grounding. I ran my wires on my replacements directly from the battery . With multiple lighted led switches to control different 12 v equipment I use. If you do go directly from the battery, you may wish to consider putting an in line fuse in , in order to protect everything in case of a short.Good Luck , Bordercollie
 
+1 on what Border Collie says about the ground.......Find a bolt to the frame that you can go to and run your ground under the head of that bolt/nut..........

For me I made an Auxillary fuse panel that runs directly to the battery. This fuse panel has 6 circuits and I used 6 guage wire to the battery. From it I run a series of circuits to an over head panel with lighted switches above the operator in the cab........The 2 driving lights, the rear flood light on the back of the cab, an accessory plug back by the rear right brake light for spreaders or sprayers, and an interior light are run from this panel with each having their own circuit/fuse............

Good advice on each accessory having a fused power supply.........watching a unit burn down out in the middle of nowhere is NOT fun........God bless........Dennis
 
Thanks everyone for the replies, I'm going to tinker with the lights tonight. I'll let everyone know how it goes.
 
Open the hood and look straight down in the middle of the front under the hood. See the copper colored factory ground there, I ran a ground wire from my added front lights here. Also, add a in line fuse where you are tied on at the battery so if anything shorts out the fuse will blow.
 
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