Almost 2 years ago I added Baja Design Amber Rock Lights to my roof rack to use as hazards and driving lights. One a recent sunset drive the rear passenger side led left its mortal coil. Luckily Baja Designs has a 5 year warranty so I removed it and opened an RMA. I took this time to right the wrongs of the past. When I first put these on I hard wired them together and really heat shrunk the heck out them. That was mistake, it made them unserviceable. They were waterproof, but unserviceable.
With that established, I got to chopping things up. If this happened again I would want to be able to replace just one light. I checked the working light with a bench top power supply and it lit up like the sun.
Now to check the dead light, no luck here. Proving it was not my wiring. If these lights have 50 hours on them I would be shocked. I do use them almost every time I drive the baja, having lights higher up during the waning hours of light makes you safer IMHO.
I invested in some weatherpack connectors and crimpers a while back, which seemed perfect for this! I added plugs to the old light and the spare I had while I wait for a warranty from Baja Designs.
I mounted the lights back on the rack so I could cut the 1 -> 2 pigtail to length. And then I stripped and crimped a weather pack connector on the wire on the roof. Look at this pic, why did I bring this many tools outside?
Back in the garage I crimped the pigtail from to go from 1 wire to 2 lights. Can we take a minute to appreciate how clean that pigtail is!
Plugged it in and tested
When/if one of the front baja designs die I’ll do the same there. Always learning and getting better!