Video Transcript for Identification Light Bar for Trailers over 80" Wide Review

Hi, I'm Shane with etrailer.com. Today, we're going to be taking a look at, I'm going to show you how to install Optronics 3 Diode LED Identification Light Bar on our flatbed trailer. It's going to function as a third tail light. You can see we're going to have three LED lights. It's going to be 17 inches long by an inch and three eighths, by one inch. It's going to be fully sealed, and waterproof.

There are other options for these lights, you can also get them with a clear lens, and you can get them either longer or shorter, with more diodes or less.You can also get these to function as a brake light, as well as a running light. For this particular light, this is only going to function as a running light or a third running light. It's going to be a two wire design. You're going to have your ground wire and your power wire. Again, they're going to be LED.

What's nice about the LEDs over the incandescent, is they're going to last much longer. With the incandescent lights, you have to change the bulbs when they blow out. With these, you have no light bulbs to change.The lenses are constructed in polycarbonate material, so they're going to hold up in all weather conditions. They're going to mount .. two mounting locations.

You're going to have one here, and one here. It's going to come with the hardware. Now that we've gone over some of the features, let's show you how to get it installed.For this particular installation, we're going to be replacing the light. We're already going to have the power wire ran back. If you are adding the third brake light and you don't have one previously, or didn't have one previously, what you're going to do is you're going to take the power wire from your brake lights that are already on there, and you're going to run one from each side back to wherever you're putting this light on.

Then you're going to tie into the black wire.These are my wires coming from my two lights, what we're going to do is we're going to strip these back. I'm going to add on the heat shrink butt connector, and these don't come with your lights, but I highly recommend them because your wires are going to be outside, open to the elements. This will help protect your connections from corroding. We'll take your other one, we're going to strip this one back just a little bit more. It doesn't really matter which wire you strip back, or which wire you add on to. What we're going to do is we're going to add on our black wire to one of them.So like that. And then the other end of our butt connector. Strip it down. Go ahead and take our heat source and heat shrink that butt connector. If you don't have a heat gun, you can find these here at etrailer.com also. I'll take our ground wire and push it in like that. And the kit's going to come with hardware. You will have a small nut here to go on the back. Go ahead and tighten those down. Then for our ground wire, we just need to make sure we're grounding it into metal. So we'll take a self tapping screw, and you can see our metal frame right here.This is a good place to do it. And then take any extra wire that we might have, and bundle then it up. Zip tie it if we need to. Make sure we don't have any wire hanging down that could potentially get caught on anything. Then we can test it out. We'll make sure it's working correctly.