walkertimothy7
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i have added lights to my canopy on my 1969 john deere 4020 and since then my lights blink on and off. what causes that? [/b]
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Steve@Advance
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Don't know about your particular headlight switch, but automotive switches have automatic reset overload
protection. A bad connection at the switch, or too many amps (as in adding lights to the circuit) will cause
it to overheat, open the circuit, when it cools come back on. There may also be an overload breaker in the
fuse block that would do the same thing.
If that's what is happening, need to put the added lights on a separate switch/circuit from the headlights.
protection. A bad connection at the switch, or too many amps (as in adding lights to the circuit) will cause
it to overheat, open the circuit, when it cools come back on. There may also be an overload breaker in the
fuse block that would do the same thing.
If that's what is happening, need to put the added lights on a separate switch/circuit from the headlights.
the tractor vet
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Well more then likely you are overloading the circuit breaker or ou hooked up to a flasher like other guy said . So if you have four headlights and one rear white light your darn near maxed out on a 20 amp breaker , then you throw in two more and it starts to trip the breaker . Split the system add a second breaker and a CV relay at use a wire from the main headlights to trigger the CV relay with the main power from the battery to the new breaker abd power the CV relay from the new breaker then to the new lights . I have to do his on the Farmalls all the time when guys want MORE LIGHTS There factory system is maxed out with four head lights and one rear white light plus the dash lights and the old 20 amp fuse will not handle let lone the switch.
walkertimothy7
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I have check for a bad ground or loose connection. And everything is tight. I am guessing that it is a circuit over load. I added a front and back light on both sides on the canopy and have wired them in to the lights on the fenders. As left top lights are wired to left fender lights and right top wired to right fender lights.
Tx Jim
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Ditto on the overloaded circuit breaker.
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