[C5] Goofy LED question

[Kap142]

Each year our club takes part in a Christmas parade or two. Carrie and I take part too. I have added an RGB set of four strips which wire into a central box. With this comes a small wireless remote. My question is as follows...... From the central control box come three wires, a red to battery pos. a black to bat neg and a yellow to who the hell knows where. Any ideas guys. Chinese instructions leave a little to be desired.

[navy2kcoupe]

Ken, post a picture of the instructions and I'll have a look.
Could be (just guessing) a control wire to turn on the leds
when it sees either positive or negative. Like wire it up to
your headlight switch so the LEDs come on when the lights do
or something similar..........
Andy

[Rich Z]

Yeah, sounds like it would be the trigger wire for a relay of some sort.

[Kap142]

I think both of you guys are correct that it's a trigger wire of some durn nature. I have found out that I can just not use it and have the remote buttons to change function/patterns/etc.

This is the best I can do on posting the instructions.

[navy2kcoupe]

OK, first of all....... get rid of the crap I can't read, rotate the rest and enlarge



Now, I thought I was pretty good at janglsh (Japanese-English), but it does NOT
translate very well to Chinese-English. Wonder what those dudes were smoking
when they wrote those instructions? Musta been some primo crap!
I can't make heads or tails out of it, and still just have the feeling that it's a
trigger wire of some sort. If you out commas in between some of the words
like "door, braking, power, or switching power supply" it really makes it seem to be
a control wire of some kind. Have you Googled the manufacturer's name or anything?
Maybe somebody else has posed the same question on line.
Andy

[navy2kcoupe]

Instruction #1 SEEMS to say "position the lights around the car where you would
like them - front, back, left, right, and connect them to the main box using the connectors.
Instruction #2 SEEMS to say "connect the red and black wires to the car battery",
but the rest of it is just guesswork.
Instruction #3 SEEMS to say " use the remote control to make the lights work.
If they don't, make sure the antenna wire is stretched out, the control box
light is working, or re-open the power box-whatever THAT is supposed to mean.
Andy