Hi! Could you tell me how this flasher connects to ground? I don't see how it's grounded since there are only two wires. Thx!
1015412
It doesn't and doesnt need to i guess. I'm no electrican, but i think the circut that this thing plugs into is grounded. I've bern using it for my LED blinkers on my kawa ninja 250 for months now and its been working fine.
1739604
get the ground from any near ground cable of your car or to the chasis...the voltage wires connect them to a 12v switch and the switch to a voltage cable that goas to the batery(i took it from the emergency lights vcable)..that way you'll be able to turnthem on/off when ever you want(using the 12v switch)
839965
If I understand the question, the indicator light is on when the signal is off. I had that happen to me when I bought a flasher unit that was made for a negative ground system while mine is a positive ground system. Once I replaced that unit with a flasher compatible with a positive ground system, everything worked fine. Older flasher units were all mechanical so it didn't make any difference. The newer units have a switching transistor that is polarized for either positive or negative ground. I hope this explanation helps!
17531
You're not properly grounded. Double check the ground at the switch and the box to the panel.
629079
they are grounded thru the lamp mounting bolt... if not mounted to a solid metal part of the vehicle, you must run a ground wire (attached to the mounting bolt using a wire lug) to a metal part of the vehicle.Pete
1744524
I grounded my switch to the box and it works perfectly. I don't have ground wires either. You do need a neutral wire.
1055018
Yes, probably a three blade flasher. Look on the web for wiring diagrams, as you will probably need to do some rewiring.
794875
there are only two wires a red and white. on the one i bought, you cut the wire from the ac adapter and strip the ends.i touch each end to your battery post .if they dont light switch them and you will find which is ground. you can also cut them to any length and solder wires to the ones you cut.its a little work but not hard
2121214
As I recall it just had two; a black and a white. No ground wire. It is for lamps rather than house wiring.
1395313
I have same problem, I took a flash light and shocked it at night to turn off then when lite was removed it seemed to reset, been working for a couple of day now, i have 3 of them 2 work great all the time one is exposed more to street lights and another porch lite, it seems to be effected by it. Im going to try a cover over the eye with an exposed end towards the sky.
440463
You don't ground the fuse block. Power flows through fuse block to thing being powered like lights or GPS or whatever. From there it goes to ground or via a switch to ground depending on how you wire it.
1648402
You need a separate switch source, such as a wall switch. The lights are all wired to each other and then there are 3 wires to hard wire it to your electrical source (hot, neutral and ground).
1979147
On mine, there were two solid colored wires (blue & brown?), and one (yellow) with a stripe. When I opened the back of the light, I found that the striped wire just ended and was not connected to anything. My guess is that they found 3-lead wire cheaper than 2 or 4-lead so that's what we get. The other two solid wires seem to work interchangeably as + or -, so they apparently added circuitry to make them idiot-proof.Short Answer:Striped wire: Not usedOther two: Connect to 12V DC
2119609
without actually being there, my guess is you have weak tie in connections. Since you have indicated that it does work but intermittently, it appears to be a bad connection. The wires that come with the unit are very thin and need more surface contact area and the connection wires need to be shiny when mated to your vehicle wires which should also be bright. Fool proof way is to solder but that is difficult with the small gauge wires.
894985
You have to find your vehicles wiring diagram and switch the two positive wires going into the light bulb socket. There should be three wires, a ground, a constant positive, and an alternative positive (signal flash). I wouldn't recommend doing this unless you actually know 100% what you are doing though because if you don't do it properly you can really mess up your signals.
527386
It's only visible to another IR camera. I have 2 of these and if I point them at each other and something triggers them the flash is visible to the other one. There is a dull red light on them that is visible. I would suggest locking them with a cable or in a box.
1031707
Nope that's the norm for these lights! check the fuse by the plug first, go to radioshack for new fuses. i had 2 of these lights that pop'ed and sparks came out I contacted the company, they sent me 2 new light heads opened the box 1 st one worked the 2nd one was dead on arrival it never ends with these! Lol so far I have 2 out of three that haven't given me issues in the last 2-3 months