quick tailight help

[Aaron Coffee]

Will be wiring my taillights tonight, (41 Chevy leds)the instructions say for the taillights say green to stop/turn and black to tail. Used a test power source and the black wire lights up the brighter lights, which should be the brake lights, correct? So do I wire it per the instructions or opposite so the bright lights are stop turn and the dimmer ones are tail?
Thanks
Aaron

[dh]

I'd make the brighter ones the stop/turn, like every other trailer light I've ever come accross.

[Aaron Coffee]

Thanks, thats what I did. Not sure if the instructions were wrong, the taillight wires reversed(didn't check but pretty sure they are made in China).
Aaron

[Dale M.]

Is bulb in correctly...... usually these type of bulb have offset pins on shell so the only go in one way, but maybe nobody told the CHINESE prisoner making the product for 10 cents a day pay that.... OR maybe wires and (bulb) contact plate is installed wrong .... Throw instructions away and wire it so bright filament is stop/turn and dimmer filament is tail...

Dale

[Aaron Coffee]

Got wondering about the bulb, too. It's one of those leds that plugs into a standard socket. Isn't there also a double filament bulb that has the pins straight across rather than offset? I meant to pull a bulb and check it, but I was in a hurry as I was taking it to a car show today.
Aaron

[48Rob]

Aaron,

All the bulbs I've ever encountered that had the pins straight across were single filament.

Rob

[Dale M.]

Aaron,

All the bulbs I've ever encountered that had the pins straight across were single filament.

Rob

Correct.... And all the double firmament bulb have offset pins so the bulbs always go in with proper orientation as per function...

One would have to think that if colors of wires do not agree with written instructions as per function either the lamp assembly is wired incorrectly or whoever wrote instructions was/is color blind.

Dale

[Aaron Coffee]

Got wondering if the led board was wired backwards, so I replaced it with a standard bulb and it worked the same, so apparently either the instructions were wrong or the pigtails were switched.
Aaron