As you may know, Custer Products is much more than a manufacturer of high-quality lights. We also provide technical support, consulting services, and even custom-designed lighting solutions. Our customers often rely on us for helpful guidance, so we collected some of our most frequently asked questions. Please contact us if you have any questions that we did not answer below.
General FAQs
LED lights operate about 90% more efficiently than incandescent bulbs. This is because they generate less heat, which helps them last much longer than other types of lights. LEDs also will not burn out ask quickly as incandescent bulbs, though they do dim over time.
Many LEDs have a rated life of up to 50,000 hours, which is approximately fifty times longer than a typical incandescent bulb. Used 12 hours a day, a 50,000 bulb will last more than 11 years. Used 8 hours a day, it will last 17 years!
The laws around amber lights vary from state-to-state. The only way to know for sure is to investigate your state’s traffic laws. That said, most states allow and even encourage the use of amber lights on any vehicles involved in roadside work or assistance. On that note, it is illegal to tint your headlights. Although, you may tint your taillights; just proceed with caution and common sense.
Consult your local DMV for applicable vehicle codes and find out if you even can tint your taillights in your area.
Most navigational light systems include red and green sidelights. These special lights indicate the port and starboard side of your boat, as well as one or more white lights. It is also important that you have flashlights on board, as you never know when a navigation light might burn out.
Custer Products’ marine and boat bow lights are high-quality, durable, and dependable. Stay safe whether you are facing fog, mist, or rain on the water with our LED marine lights for your motorboat, yacht, or fishing boat. Our powerful, reliable, weather-resistant LEDs, such as our LED GXL GoLight Spotlight, are equipped with a quick-adjusting mounting cradle and an impressive 10-year limited manufacturer warranty.
As soon as your trailer hits the road, it must have reflex reflectors, taillights, brake lights, and turn signals. All these lights need to be red, except for the turn signals for the rear, which can be yellow or red. You will need all these lights.
There are marker lamps at the top rear of the trailer and mounted around the center of the vehicle, which are identification lights. Their purpose is to alert following drivers that the vehicle equipped with these lights is wider than eighty inches. You will need these lights to legally drive your trailer on the road.
If you have any questions that we did not cover, please contact us. Overall, you will always want to make sure your lights are bright, and you are always able to see what is on the road ahead of your vehicle. From everyone here at Custer, we hope you drive safe.
Lite It Wireless Light Bar FAQs
When you turn on your light bar, both turn signals flash to tell you that the batteries are at full capacity (over 12v). Your light bar is ready to use. 2 outer lights flash for 3 seconds if battery voltage is above 12.0v (full charge). 1 left turn signal light only flashes on startup when your battery is between 11.4v and 12v (50%-80% charge)
Plug in your charge cord and make sure that the green light lights up, this tells you that charger is putting out voltage and the light bar is getting charged. If green light does not light up, check your fuse in the charge cord and make sure you are getting 12+ volts at center pin of charge cord.
Pull the center 3 small lights out of light bar and look inside; you will see 2 batteries with Positive and negative terminals. Check each battery with a volt meter, and make sure they are seeing the voltage from the charge cord when plugged in. If either battery is below 10.5v you may need to replace the batteries.
Check your battery voltage and see if batteries are completely discharged. If batteries have any voltage over 10v, they should light up the red light on the side. If the batteries are charged, check the switch under the handle, you may need to replace the switch or jump out the switch briefly to make sure it is bad.
You light bar has power, now pull the left brake light and turn light out and look inside light bar and see the circuit board, when the light bar is turned on and getting power, the circuit board has 2 small red LEDs that flash back and forth when the circuit is getting power. If they are not flashing but the circuit board has 12v, call 800-490-3158 for assistance.
Check socket on your truck, and make sure it is active with ground, Tail, Turn, and Brake light functions. Try plugging in the transmitter to a different truck to make sure your socket on your truck can be ruled out. If transmitter doesn’t work still, take out small set screw in the tip of your transmitter plug and pull out the tip of plug a few inches to see the wires. Make sure all wires are connected tightly to the pins on the plug.
- All Lite-it wireless light bars only activate tail lights when the tail lights are on, on your truck. We don’t hardwire tail light function full time, because this saves battery power and makes the light bar run longer periods between battery charging. You must turn on some function on your truck to activate the light bar when it is turned on.
- If tail or turn function is turned on, on your truck and light bar still doesn’t react, check your socket on your truck to make sure it is properly working, or simply plug in transmitter to another truck to test this.
- Check the serial number stamped into the back of the black transmitter case and make sure it matches (exactly) to the light bar that you are trying to activate. If serial numbers don’t match, your light bar will not work. Call 1-800-490-3158 to purchase new transmitter.
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Rarely, certain truck manufacturers put their marker light output on a different pin. You can check this by taking out the tip of transmitter with set screw (be careful it is a small screw) and pull the tip back to expose wires.
The tail light wire (WHITE wire) is located at 1 o’clock next to the ground pin. Move the wire on the transmitter to the 11 o’clock position on the other side of the ground pin. If this works, you can either leave the wire in new location, or put a small jumper wire from 11 o’clock position to the 1 o’clock position, so that transmitter will work on all trucks.
Pull out the 3 center small lights, check voltage at the battery terminals with a volt meter. If you have 12+ volts at charge cord and green light is on, you should see 12v at battery terminals.
If you see very different reading on your volt meter, the one-way diode might be bad. We put a one-way direction diode in the red wire from the center pin of the socket inside light bar, this prevents voltage from back feeding from the batteries to the socket when you are using the light bar. If this diode goes bad, it may stop voltage from coming in from the charge cord to the batteries. Pull the left turn signal light out and look at center pin on socket inside light bar, this is a red wire, and within a few inches of the wire, you will see a double blue butt connector, it is longer than just one typical butt connector, inside this butt connector is the diode.
If you don’t see voltage at the batteries when charging the light bar, remove this diode and call us and we will send you a new one.
Our smart circuit inside the light bar, automatically turns off the strobes when you use brake lights or turn signals, then the strobes will automatically come back on 3 seconds after you turn off the turn signal or brakes. This is a safety feature, so that traffic following you can see that the turn signal or brake function is activated.
If strobe lights don’t come on when simply turning on the strobe switch, make sure the switch is illuminated and no brake function or turn function is on. If switch is not illuminated when turning on switch, pull the right turn light and look at the back of the switch and make sure all 3 wires are attached with spade connectors.
