Tonight we went out with a group on a night ride. First time with my 30" and 12" light bars running together for extended periods. One of those bars won’t run without a minimum of 12 volts continuous power. It started flickering and shutting off and turning back on so I switched to the volt meter in the gauge and noticed that my voltage was fluctuating between 11-13.8 volts. Every time power dipped below 12, my light bar shut down. Engine RPM had no bearing on the voltage output. Do I have a bad Voltage Regulator? I saw that the VR should put out 14+ volts pretty consistently. It’s almost like the VR was getting hot, and as it cooled off, it would increase the voltage, but when it got hot, the voltage would decrease…
Running 402 Watts with my light bars, and amplifier (wasn’t using it when the lights were on, so should have had plenty of power.)
Tonight we went out with a group on a night ride. First time with my 30" and 12" light bars running together for extended periods. One of those bars won’t run without a minimum of 12 volts continuous power. It started flickering and shutting off and turning back on so I switched to the volt meter in the gauge and noticed that my voltage was fluctuating between 11-13.8 volts. Every time power dipped below 12, my light bar shut down. Engine RPM had no bearing on the voltage output. Do I have a bad Voltage Regulator? I saw that the VR should put out 14+ volts pretty consistently. It’s almost like the VR was getting hot, and as it cooled off, it would increase the voltage, but when it got hot, the voltage would decrease…
Running 402 Watts with my light bars, and amplifier (wasn’t using it when the lights were on, so should have had plenty of power.)
