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I've been emailing with John, at ADV Monster all morning, about an issue I was having with their dimmer switch http://stores.advmonster.com/rotary-led-dimmer-with-high-beam-bypass/ and my SR6 Rigid light. I told him that I troubleshoot the circuit and once the dimmer was isolated away from the rest of the circuit the light worked fine. With the dimmer connected, the light was very dim no matter where the dial on the dimmer was set. Now mind you, the switch had been working just fine since I installed it back in May.
John suggested the light had developed and internal ground and was interfering with the dimmer's operation.
With the dimmer removed completely from the circuit, I disconnected the plug that has the positive and negative wires, and ran a jumper from one positive to the other. When the power was turned on, the light didn't come on thus eliminating the notion of the internal ground.
So the light works fine as long as the dimmer isn't plugged in.
I offered to ship John the switch so he could look at it and do whatever tests he needed to do. John's reply was that the switch wasn't under warranty since I wasn't using HIS lights. I asked where that was stated on his website?
I obviously got a bad $60 switch and I'm getting no where with John. Has anyone else had a problem with this switch?
I have the Rigid light wired into the factory aux light plug under the right side panel using the factory connector. I also mounted the dimmer there as well.
John suggested the light had developed and internal ground and was interfering with the dimmer's operation.
With the dimmer removed completely from the circuit, I disconnected the plug that has the positive and negative wires, and ran a jumper from one positive to the other. When the power was turned on, the light didn't come on thus eliminating the notion of the internal ground.
So the light works fine as long as the dimmer isn't plugged in.
I offered to ship John the switch so he could look at it and do whatever tests he needed to do. John's reply was that the switch wasn't under warranty since I wasn't using HIS lights. I asked where that was stated on his website?
I obviously got a bad $60 switch and I'm getting no where with John. Has anyone else had a problem with this switch?
I have the Rigid light wired into the factory aux light plug under the right side panel using the factory connector. I also mounted the dimmer there as well.