Over the weekend, I tried to attach this to my exterior light on Harvey the 2010 Greyhawk RV.
Created the lead and I think I did it correctly, however when we went to turn on the exterior lights, it only lit up as green. We could not get it to change any colors. It lit up green so we know that it was getting power. But we could not get it to change colors. Lots of green. Thought the Remote was dead, so we bought new batteries. Did I mention that it was only green?
Thoughts? We put the remote right up to the little receiver, nothing. Green. We could not power it on or off.
What do you think I did wrong?
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Jayco Grayhawk 31FS 2010
Over the weekend, I tried to attach this to my exterior light on Harvey the 2010 Greyhawk RV.
What do you think I did wrong?
Main thing you did wrong was that you didn't test the lights before installing them. The backing tape on these strips is typically not very good so I would pull them off and send it back for a replacement or refund. Since you have lights [green] you have power so its most likely in the controller or the remote. You might be able to get the company to send you a replacement remote and controller.
I have never seen a bad controller box before. Does the box turn on and off with the remote control? Do you have the antenna on the controller (small white wire with black tip) in a place where it can be seen by the remote control? This is an infared remote like a TV so they need to be able to see each other and be in close proximity. Make sure the receiver antenna is not in the sunlight too.
Steve
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Jayco Grayhawk 31FS 2010
I would like to very much encourage you all to use M4 Led Products. I have never experienced such a dedicated owner, who, after I told him my "Strip of LED is all green" decided to sit down and figure out what was happening. Here is what he figured out:
Tim,
After doing some bench testing, here is the resolution, there are two connections that are backwards and they can only be resolved by changing both at the same time.
1st - Reverse the polarity of the 12 volts coming into the controller. This is the wire that you cut off the transformer, reverse them regardless of the color of the power and ground.
2nd – Also reverse one of the RGB (4 wire extension) cables. Unplug it on one end, and reverse only one RGB connector either at the controller or at the strip.
That will fix the green problem and resolve the issue.
Let me know your results,
Steve
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Jayco Grayhawk 31FS 2010
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