Help with wiring Rigid 20" E-Series Light Bar

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DaveT

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Let me bein by saying, I am no electrician! I have poured over the various threads and am still stumped as to why my light bar won't work. (2019 SCREW)

The Rigid manual says to use a 15 Amp fuse and I have installed a 15 Amp fuse into the harness.

The light bar has a fixed pigtail with a 12 gauge Red & Black Pair of unfinished ends.

The Harness from Rigid has a pigtail which includes a Red & White unfinished pair & a Leg for a manual switch with Red / Black / Blue end with Female connectors for a manual switch & a leg with Red & Black Ring connectors for attaching to the battery.

I used 12 gauge Butt connectors to connect Red-Red / Black to Black from the Light bar to the pigtail with the Red/Black unfinished ends.

I connected the Red Ring to the Positive terminal and the Black ring connector to the Negative battery terminal.

I then snipped the female connector from the Blue Wire on the Harness and connected via a crimp connector to the Green/White Aux wire which goes to Aux 1. I know I have the correct wires as I have bumper lights using these already. In fact, I know Aux1 is Hot/Good as I had a light on it previously.

Turn on the truck, flip Aux1 ON ... No joy. I've checked all connections and can't find anything wrong.

> Update I am blowing the fuse ... digging into this now
 
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OICNW-Rob

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I would be worried as to why you need a 25A fuse when Rigid says you only need a 15 amp. Where is the extra draw coming from? Unless that 15A fuse was just weak. Are you running more than just this light bar on this circuit?
 
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I blew two 15 Amp Fuses. The installation guide says the "minimum fusing requirement" is 15 Amps for the E-series (20"+). The specs from RI do shoe 15.3 Amps max draw, so I would assume it's peaking over 15 Amp when it gets lit up and the buffer of the larger fuse is enough?

I only have the lightbar on this Aux switch.
 
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