HOW TO Wire 12V LED Rocker Switch - Simple Guide and Wiring Explanation
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- In this how-to video I how you How to Wire 12V LED Rocker Switch. There's a bunch of different LED Rocker Switches out there, sometimes called Carling Switches and they vary between 2, 3 ,4 5, 6 and even 7 pins! 💲 Rocker Switches amzn.to/3dkH6h2
In this simple guide video I show you any easy explanation of how to wire up a 12v LED Rocker switch so you can get on with powering up your new Lightbar, spot lights, pump, camera or whatever else you are powering.
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I have been googling and searching for exactly this for 2 days. Every other video just shows the power it to a battery. But you’re actually showing it’s possible to power it to an accessory to turn it on and what all the individual plugs mean. Thank you I can finally put my truck together!
Short, straight to the point and exactly what I needed (literally the same switch)
Great video, refreshed my memory,..gets a lil more confusing when you run a relay with it.
Great job.👍
Well done. Nice and simple explanation. For 5 stars - You might have mentioned the pin numbers that are shown on the switch . Also you might have commented that If Pins 3 (Acc) and 6 ( +ve Dash connection) are joined together then the lower "dash" light also comes on if so desired for whatever reason as well as the top switch light.
Easy to follow, thank you. I was struggling with wiring a filter shaker for a sweeper and your instruction did the trick.... 2-minute fix after viewing your video... Thank you!
Glad it helped
Thanks for doing this. It's a great explanation and helped me get my head around my UTV wiring project.
Thank you for your informative video.
Awesome short video, I’m hooking up a LED light bar and forward lights on my Thunderjet. Thanks!
Thank You so much! Finally a Video of the same Switch i have and an easy and straight "How-To" so i can understand where the pins for!
I'm working on a Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor and installing a new center console with these switches for a customized experience.
Thank you! Was in a bind and couldn’t figure out which pins to use. Made quick work of it.
Thanks again
great vid. simple and clear. thanks. I am wiring a switch for my baitwell on the beach for nite fishing. When i need to dip bait and lite up my baitwell, now i will see the switch in the dark.
👍👍
Very helpful video. In the process of rewiring my bass boat switches, gauges and fuse panel. Love accent as well .
Thanks for info 👌🏻 I looked on line to see which pin what’s for couldn’t find any and bought the switch on line and came without any diagram .
It was useful and that’s when I like about CZcams ...
Thanks again 🙏🏻
Thank you very much for making this video...I now understand my switch 😊👍
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
You have no idea how many videos I had top watch before coming to yours! Finally!
You helped me figure out the virtual "RAT"S NEST" of wiring that came with my rocker panel!
Glad it helped 👍
Very simple. Glad this is the first video I watched. Thanks!
Awesome! So I could just wire the left side and skip the dash light correct? I want to wire mine so I can switch it on without have the key in. I know it’ll drain the battery but there occasions I just wanna turn on my spot lights to do something on the farm without turning the key. And I don’t want a light in the switch to be draining it
Yep you could
Thats exactly what I plan on doing for my project. 👍👍
Simple yet elegant
Great video sir quick and simple.
Thanks a ton mate!
Worked perfectly for my pod lights. Great vid!
Thank you for the short tutorial. Very helpful.
Awesome vid. Explained it perfectly and saved the day. Wiring up aux lights on my UTV.
Cheers mate 🤘
Do you have a video for a 6pin rocker switch? It helped A LOT with re-wiring my fog lights and rear defrost switch, but the rear wiper/wash switch is a 6 pin with 8 numbers and I don't get it.
Thank you so much for your invaluable information, highly appreciate it, keep it up the outstanding job, have a great day.
Thanks 🙏
Perfect! Got it working now 👍🏼
Very helpful! Installing whip LED lights. Thanks
Champ!!! Very easy to follow! Fantastic.
A lot of good information. Thank you !
Great video. Exactly what I needed for my project!
Very helpful, thanks 👍
Mate thank you so much! Absolutely loved it!!
Legend
Thanks very helpful UTV switches
Thanks! Re-Wiring my boat and putting a new rocker panel and this helped tremendously.
What if the acc has a twin wire?
Mine are wired up slightly differently. (by an auto sparky) so the part that illuminates the lens with the picture comes on with the dash lights and the (brighter) lens that's just a bar comes on when the switch is on. That way you can easily identify what you are switching in the dark. works well.
Yep that's the way. Can have it either, personal preference :)
What pin do I hook up from the dash lights so that the center light on the switch is not always on?
Thanks
Nice your video helped me alot today🙂. Thanx for the great video .
Thank you for this.
THANK YOU for this!!!
Simplest solution? After playing around with the rocker switch (with electrical tester), Color match the wire = color of the rocker switch bolt. Rocker switch = 1 black bolt screw & 1 (single) or 2 bronze bolt screw (3 way). Your wire would have 1 line wire (power) and 1 or 2 traveling wire (it's easy to tell the difference by the color of wire). This is how probably the building manufacturers uses low pay scale workers do connect your wiring at home. They can just follow by the color of the wire & color of the screw bolt.
Awesome video.. thx . But I still have a question.. when you have the switch totally wired in and all the light are off in the vehicle "parked". The switch would be totally dead or "no lights on switch" so it won't drain your battery?? Right??
Awesome video, thanks mate.
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Gracias me sirvió mucho tu explicación
Thanks for the vid. I think the accent made it more understandable. Lol .
How can i wiring switch with color
yellow where i can connect what Relay no. or battery ?
Blue where should connect what relay no.?
Red where shoud connect fog light??
Black is should ground
Ok I have a main switch for my rear spot light. The another manual switch on the wheel carrier.. the last switch corroded and I didn’t take a pic of the last set up 🤦🏼♂️ got a new switch and can’t get it to work the way it was
Great video and thanks for sharing.
You're wiring potentially high wattage through a switch which can only handle low current loads, and thereby result in overheating and possibly fire. Any such circuit for led fog lights for example, which commonly draws 30 - 50 amps needs the addition of a relay.
Very well explained, thank you.
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Awesome video thank you so much for sharing
Cheers mate, very helpful
Can I use dash light/ key power as the main power at same time
Thanks for the information!
Can you direct me to a video on working a rocker turn signal and hazard together? 7 pin turn signal and 5 pin hazard. Thanks in advance.
Question... when using these switches, what do you do with the negative wire from the accessory you're powering?
Goes to a ground/earth or depending how far from battery back to the neg post
@@VideoShowMeHow Can you use the right side ground if you’re not hooking that side up to the car lights?
@@christophermcandrew2741 of the switch do you mean? I would prefer to use its own ground
How can I wire them up so when I hit my high beams they turn on with the switch on also
What if I want th exact same switch but instead of switching out 12v, I want to switch out ground? I am going to locker bypass and need to send a ground signal but have the nice locker switches that I bought for them.
I have a battery isolation solenoid that switched on/off using the ground. Does that mean I can’t use this type of switch?
Show us how you tapped into your dash light switch so it will be illuminated
Im wiring up a chase light to a momentary rocker switch, where do i connect the yellow wire that controls the mode patterns on the light? Thx
Did you get a wiring diagram with the light? I would assume that wire would need constant power from what you describe, but not 100% sorry Phil
great video
Just making sure I got this straight. Battery > switch > lightbar? Do I need to run a cable back to battery or can it be earthed?
I've got a on off rocker switch with led its a 5 pin but they are all inline any clue how I need to wire it the is no marking on the switch at all
Can you do one of these switches into a 3 way switch so that when you have a light bar you can choose to out it on manually or have it rigged into headlight high beam so that when you flash your headlight the light bar flashes also please thanks
Thnk you
Can you explain a 7 pin rocker switch?
Excellent explanation of the switch. I’m using it locally as the on/off switch under my bonnet directly hooked to my battery. Problem was the light remained on and was drawing power. Removed the light switch (power from dash lights). Is this setup still drawing power sitting idle or just live but not active ? Asking if this will drain my battery in the off position ? The hot + power from battery to the switch is fused correctly.
👍 If the LEDs aren't on will be no drain
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great presentation, great explanation. thanks
I enjoyed your video. I was wondering how to wire the switches. But, when you talked about the left side, ground top and bottom power comes from the dash???? I have no idea wher to get the dash power from. I don’t want to put to much power to the bottom ??
How do you choose which lights they power?
Adam,
You do such a Great job of making these tasks less … Daunting.
I’m wondering about 7-pin variety. They make Momentary 7-pin for tasks like Winch In/Out. I’m curious if the SWITCH is created as a current “reversing” device, or is that function handled elsewhere ? They also make Latching 7-pin, but they are typically promoted to switch two Separate devices using one switch.
What I’d like to do is use a 7-pin Latching to operate a Fan in a van, in BOTH directions. The fan itself does not have an intake/exhaust function. Only intake. I’d like to create the ability to reverse direction, using a switch. So, I suppose polarity reversing (??) ….
Are these types of switch ‘usable’ that way, or do I need a Special relay, or …. ?
Thank ever so much !
Hi Adam. Great video, although I am knowledgeable of what you showed.
I have the exact same 5 pin rocker switch for use on a rear work light, but to spare me running additional wires I have wired a (fused) positive to the work light, then the work light through the rocker switch to earth. So the switch is isolating ground.
This works fine for the work light however the on/off icon light on the switch is reversed - when the work light is on the icon light is off and vice-versa.
Do you know if/how to wire the switch for this configuration?
Cheers, Dave
I think I have it!
Add a relay between work light and switch.
Work light (pos) to 85 and 30.
87 to Earth - will provide ground to lights when switched on
86 to pos of switch (2)
Switch (8) to Earth - will complete circuit to relay and turn icon light on
....Now to put that to the test tomorrow.
its ok sorted now run light power to load source
Hi, thanks for the explanation! I have one question though: How would it be possible to wire the switch so the LED only comes on if there's actually power going through the load (as opposed to only the switch being engaged)?
Just daisy chain off the wire running to your load to the switch led pin :)
thanks for the info. helps a lot!!!!!!!!!
Welcome 👌
I'm trying to replace the old rocker switches in my rv with new red led ones I thought I could just disconnect and reconnect to the new ones but the old ones r different please help
Hello there, I am running a dual battery system on my truck and I wonder is it possible to wire a voltmeter from each battery and connects them to one switch? Meaning, I want to be able to use one switch to power two voltmeters coming from two different batteries using this specific switch? Let me if it’s possible and if share some tips I would be grateful. Cheers mate.
what about a 4 pin lighted rocker switch?
When rockers are in a series and you only need the positive from accessory, what do you do with the other two wires?
Check out the 'wiring multiple rocker switches' vid on the channel for more detail. Sounds like you may not need them
@@VideoShowMeHow I have watched it. The rockers came wired together in series. But i dont know what to do with the other wires that are coming from the light bar.
Nice explanation
What is the thickness of the wires you used?
I bought a light bar set for my truck. It came with 3 wire toggle switches. I'm trying to convert it to a 2 wire multi-switch panel. as I have multiple, and want it to look cleaner. I don't seem to have power when I connect it to the new switch, even though I have the right wires connected. Not sure if I'm missing something, or??
Great video and thanks for sharing!
I installed two of these just yesterday on my car. Can I ask you how to configure them to switch off automatically the dash light when the engine is off and the car key removed? In this moment the switches take power directly from my service battery and the dash lights remain on even if the engine is off and the car closed.
Thank you in advance!
Great video but didn't find the information i was looking for... I want to mount a panel like that on my boat but want every switch connected to a separate fuse so i dont want the plus coming in from one wire but from multiple wires but still have it wired so that all switches are lit up... Hope i wasnt to vague 😎
do you have a video on how a 5 pin momentary switch would work. I am adding it to my 6 gang rocker panel but I keep on blowing the 5 amp fuse. I am not sure where I am going wrong.
not yet, will have a few new versions of this type of vid out soon
Great video, Thank you. I am still struggling with a few things on my panel. I hope you don't mind but I emailed asking for some advice.
Hey there need help on wiring some switches on a buddy’s rzr. It has a types of switches 5 pin 2 on top one I’m middle and 2 bottom I’m adding fuse box how should I wire it also I have 2 4 pins 2 on top than 2 on some side really could use help I got wired like what I found online but want to make sure befor wiring to fuse box
Are the switches you are showing Carling type switches?
Yep sure are
Can I connect the red + that goes to the battery to a fuse box tap so the LED bar would only turn on when the ignition is on?
Sure could, would have to be one that only turns on with your ignition
Hi Adam , i wanted to ask you in this vid if you need to use a 40 amp rated 12 volt relay with 4 pins would you not use the switch as your load to my lights witch draw about 20.0 amps, instead use a relay powered from the switch terminal # 3 load to energize the 86 + side of the relay coil and use #85 neg , then power in from battery fused to # 30 and #87 to lights ? Thank you for your help with this . Enjoy your time spent making these videos.
Yes if you were running a relay this would carry to load and power in, the switch would be the trigger
@@VideoShowMeHow thank you for your support Adam and appreciate your time making it possible for me to complete my installation. Your channel is very informative. Sincerely, Tom
superb brother Thank you
Hi if I had 2 led lights bars and 2 switches would I need 2 reply’s ? 2 wiring harness? Would I need a relay for each switch? Thanks
@@wyleeamme19 you would be too relays yes but could combo the trigger wire and run a single switch
Great video! Question, I have mix of 3 and 5 pin switches in a panel. I would like to wire them so bottom (dash light) light on switch is always on and top led on switch is also always on. Meaning switch is fully illuminated top and bottom all the time whether it is off or on. How would this be done with the 5 pin and 3 pin rocker switches? Thank you
Hey mate, would you suggest to fuse upstream to the switch for the connected accessories? Or downstream of the switch heading towards the light/fridge etc?
I would fuse battery side
Hi thanks for the video, I was wondering if I would be able to use this type of switch for a two way switch setup.
Cheers. By two way do you mean switching two devices by the one switch?
@@VideoShowMeHow no I was more thinking two switches that could control one light. I want to be able to have a switch in the cab of my car and also a switch in the canopy. Just ubit unsure on how to go about it
@@jamesandrews9410 Ah I see, this type won't work. The type of switch you need is called a single-pole double-throw switch or SPDT
@@VideoShowMeHow okay thanks heaps for your reply mate. I’ll do some more research on that. Really enjoy your videos
Great video! Thanks for sharing, if I'm using a 5pin switch to run a ground signal, should I keep both grounds at the top and the lower right wire connected and disconnect the battery live an use that along with the output to work as the switch?
Thanks ✌️ Yep sounds good, just make sure battery wire is fused appropriately
Thanks for creating such a great video. Do I need to disconnect the battery to change a switch that’s already in place? Thanks 🙂
Hey thanks! 👍 You can if you really want, if everything is fused is pretty safe just to switch it out
It’s always a good idea to disconnect your battery before you do anything with the electrical system