Reno and surrounding areas: Official spotted, BS, and meets thread

I got sucked into family stuff, Im bummed I could not make it.

 

Sorry I didn't even see this till now. I totally would of came. I've been wanting to go to a meet

 

We should meet up once a month or maybe once every couple of months. It was cool meeting all of you guys. Nice to put a face to the name.

 

maybe next time we meet on the south side of town so the guys coming down from the lake don't have to drive down and then all the way across town too.

 

Sounds good. Great meeting everyone. Maybe next time we can all park closer together and get some pics.

 

Nice to to meet everyone. Sounds like next time maybe we can do overnight trip? Sounds like @nvnv has a sweet spot!

 

I'll keep watching for a trip. I'd drive over to Reno for that.

 

You are more than welcome to come hang out anytime!!

 

Need help with ditch lights. I recently installed some Rigid Industries D series midnight edition ditch lights to my 17 Taco. I continuously blow fuses as soon as I flip the switch to turn them in. I've attached the ground wire and the power wire to different spots multiple times and have tried higher powered fuses than the 15 that they provide and I have no wires exposed. Any ideas on what might be wrong? Should I just buy the cigarette lighter wire for power that has the switch on it from rigid?

 

not to be a smart ass, but do you have the wires going to the correct places?

 

What switch are you using? When I wired up my rigids, I didn't like the cheapy light up switch they included. So I bought my own switch. On the wire harness that goes to the switch, there are three wires. On the switch I used I only needed two wires. By trial and error and blowing fuses and using a meter, I figured out which wires were which. The extra wire (black) is just for the switch illumination and will blow the fuse if connected with the positive wire(red) at the switch. The blue wire is your negative wire. Hope that helps.

 

Your not being a smart ads haha but yes I have them in the correct spots. Honestly I doubted that too for a minute but one of my coworkers said they were where they need to be

 

Yeah I'm using the light up switch it came with. And I don't have a blue wire. I have a red wire. A black and red wire and another red wire that is labeled as a "black" wire

 

ok so if your rigid lights came with the same switch mine did then heres how it goes. red wire is hot. black wire is ground. the wire coming out of the middle of the switch is illumination. does that sound like what you have going on?

 

Yeah that sounds right to me

 

well, then you shouldn't be blowing fuses unless your grounded out somewhere and don't know it.

 

The "Black" wire goes to the gold post. The Black/Red wire goes to the center post and the Red wire goes to the other outside post that is not gold. Give that a try

 

Sweet thanks. I'll give it a try in the morning and see if it works thanks for the help guys. Still really new to this stuff so I'm still learning haha

 

Blue wire or Red/Black wire are the same. They both go to the middle post.

 

Hopefully its just the wires on the switch that are not on the correct prong or post.