Opti-Brite 12V/24V LED RV Dome Light - Single - 6-3/4" Long - White Housing

Video Transcript for Optronics Opti-Brite LED Dome Light Installation - Enclosed Trailer

Hey guys, Kevin here with etrailer and today I'm going to be showing you how to install the Optronics Opti-Brite LED dome light with smart touch. So, our LED dome lights are going to be compatible with both a 12-volt or a 24-volt systems. They have a simple touch spot, right in the center of the light so that you can easily turn your light on and off. If you didn't have it running to a switch or if you we're in one area and wanted light but didn't want light in another area. As you can see, I can easily turn it on. If you sit there and hold the switch, it'll dim down all the way to nothing up back to its brightest setting, easily giving you the correct amount of light that you need for whatever situation you're in.

Installation of these lights, super simple. All we did was run our power straight up to an existing power line that we had for the original light that came with the manufacturer of this trailer and then just the ground, grounded to our frame. So, super simple installation, it might just take you a little bit of time just running your wire, depending on your set up. So, to begin our installation, we're gonna find out exactly where we wanna mount this. I already measured our trailer here and got 79 inches from beam to beam here, including this trim.

So, when we cut that in half and then subtract the difference of our light, I'm getting a 36 inch measurement. So, what I'm gonna do is go right on over, 36, I'm gonna make a mark and then I'm gonna do the same thing from the other side. And I know my light's gonna sit right in between there. So, the next thing we're gonna do, since we're drilling into metal studs here, is I'm gonna have to take some self tappers. With how small and tight that area is, I have to get real, real tiny ones just to make sure that we're actually gonna fit in here.

But to start, I am going to push one of these through and then use that to make a little indent into the stud, before I go ahead and fully screw these in. Now that I have it centered where I want it, I'm gonna go ahead. Just kinda make an indent where I want and I'm gonna pull my light back off and fully shoot this in. Make sure that you're wearing your safety goggles or glasses. You don't want any chance of any metal shavings getting in your eyes.

All right, we can back that back out now and put our light back on it. All right, I'm not gonna fully tighten that down yet just because I need to still move my obviously my light and center it. Then we can go ahead and stick in our other screw. And then we can finish tightening up this other one. So, what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna trim back my white wire just a bit 'cause I don't need that much length. And then I'm gonna strip back the casing. I'm gonna do a little bit more than normal, just because I'm gonna twist it up and then fold it over just to thicken it up a little bit. And then what we can do is crimp on a ring terminal and we're just gonna ground our ground wire here straight to the frame, that way we don't have to run an extra wire the length of the trailer over to our battery. And then we just take a self-tapper and pop that in place. There, here we go. Now with our black wire, we're gonna strip back more of the casing. Same thing as before I wanna twist it up and then fold it over, make it a little bit thicker. Got my butt connector and we'll crimp it down. And now we can go ahead and get some wire and we're gonna run that over to our light switch. All right, now I'm going to put my wire into my butt connector, connect it up to my light. And then we can start tracing it along our frame over towards our light, which is probably like five foot up. Since we're not really doing anything fancy here we're just gonna secure our wire with some zip ties. This is just gonna be a work trailer. So, don't really have to hide the wiring like we would if we we're in a normal camper. So as we're going along here, I'm just gonna zip tie my wire up to the trailer wiring that's already in place, just to keep it nice and tight. We don't want it hanging down loose. So, a couple of zip ties will fix that issue. So, next step we're gonna do is we're gonna tie into our load wire running off of our outlet. That way all of our lights will come on at the same time. So, I know this is my load wire right here, I'm gonna end up cutting this. I'm gonna trim back my wire for my front lights. We're gonna cut back the casings, which I don't have my thing here. All right. Now we can cut back our casing on our wire. And I'm gonna splice these two together. My wiring from my current light that I have in and the new wire that we just ran must splice those two together. I'm gonna take a butt connector and we'll connect all of our wires right here so that they're all getting power at the same time. Ooh, got tight space. All right, with our wires all spliced together, we can tuck 'em back a little bit, back in place. All right, now, once your wiring is all complete, you can go ahead and put your face plate on. After having worked with these lights a few times I find it a little bit easier if you get one side on first and then press on the other side. You are gonna have to press pretty hard just to get it to snap into place. There we go. Now that we have our wiring in place with our switch we can go ahead and test it out. As you can see, a whole lot brighter in here. Arnera's gonna have it a lot easier of a time loading up all of his work related items into his work trailer here. Well, guys, I think that does it today with our installation of the Optronics Opti-Brite LED dome light with smart touch. My name's Kevin. Thanks for watching..