I love sitting and watching people work while I am in the lawn chair with an adult beverage. And I do like the entertainment of you passing me on the highway if they are well designed and working properly.
Thank you for the effort.
To chicken light, or not
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Gumper, Jan 18, 2020.
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I like my chicken lights and have a distinctive layout. Not over the top fancy, just different. The local DOT recognizes me immediately, and because I have good reputation with them always just get the " thumbs up" when rolling through a local coop. Barely slow down. Of course, being recognizable could work against you too if you've been known to be lax on your maintenance!!
I am absolutely anal about my wiring, you have to be here in N.E. with the excessive amount of salt and calcium they use here.
I use dialectic grease when making the connection to good quality LED lights, with water proof connectors , followed by liquid black tape, followed by friction tape, followed by that crinkley wire loom. Anything under the truck that can't fit in the wire loom gets a couple of shots from the grease gun. This includes all connections at the tail lights, headlights, directionals, markets and of course all ground posts, including the batteries.650cat425, JonJon78, Itsbrokeagain and 1 other person Thank this. -
I have enough trouble with the factory installed ones and keeping them working. I worked for a small company for a few months with 2 trucks, and he had them decked out with chicken lights, I mean like 100 on the trailer alone. They were always messing up and burning out. A scale house almost pulled me OOS one night because a few weren't working. Told my boss to get them fixed or he'll be paying a for it dearly.
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All of those lights on a trailer have some value. I've pulled trailers with a lot of nice bright chicken lights, and I've pulled trailers with the minimum number of lights. To me, it is a lot easier to see when backing into a dark parking spot with a well lit up trailer. They cast a lot of light into that hole and into the truck and trailer on each side you are trying not to hit. If I owned my own truck and trailer, I'd have the lights. Wire it up right and the maintenance isn't any worse than with factory minimum number of lights. I don't remember having more trouble with more lights. A short in a light is still a short in a light, no matter how many unshorted lights you have.
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Do you even have fuses on those chicken lights? There's no way a short should affect the alternator. The moment a power wire touches ground it should pop the fuse almost immediately.
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