Trunk light wires - which one is positive and negative?
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Trunk light wires - which one is positive and negative?
Today I was in the midst of installing my trunk light cold cathodes, and making a DIY for it.
I spliced the red wire of the cold cathode into the thicker yellow and blue wire (positive?) and I spliced the black wire from the inverter to the grey/blue wire (negative?)
I assumed this was right as I just assumed the thicker wire was positive.
Well, plug the battery back in, and open up my trunk to test out the light - they didn't turn on.
Then a second after opening my trunk, I hear this mini explosion like "poufff" sounding like it came from the inverter, and I see a little bit of smoke (don't know where it's from, the inverter or trunk light wires). It smelled bad too.
I figured I would test out the inverter plugged directly to the batteries and alas - nothing turned on.
Fried my inverter?
What was the cause though??? I'm pretty sure I spliced everything right!
The only thing I could think of that fried my inverter was that I had the polarities mixed up...
I spliced the red wire of the cold cathode into the thicker yellow and blue wire (positive?) and I spliced the black wire from the inverter to the grey/blue wire (negative?)
I assumed this was right as I just assumed the thicker wire was positive.
Well, plug the battery back in, and open up my trunk to test out the light - they didn't turn on.
Then a second after opening my trunk, I hear this mini explosion like "poufff" sounding like it came from the inverter, and I see a little bit of smoke (don't know where it's from, the inverter or trunk light wires). It smelled bad too.
I figured I would test out the inverter plugged directly to the batteries and alas - nothing turned on.
Fried my inverter?
What was the cause though??? I'm pretty sure I spliced everything right!
The only thing I could think of that fried my inverter was that I had the polarities mixed up...
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By then, I'll have my new inverters ordered since I blew my one inverter.
For now, my cold cathode tubes are mounted and just chilling there waiting to be powered up! hahah
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I do have a multi-meter and tested it already.
My wiring was CORRECT, but somehow my inverter blew up?
The red lead to the blue/yellow wire and the black lead to the gray/blue wire read positive.
THe other way around read negative.
This means the blue/yellow wire is the positive doesn't it?
I hooked the red on the inverter wire to the blue/yellow wire and it fried my inverter.
Could just be a bad inverter, but I'm ordering more.
My wiring was CORRECT, but somehow my inverter blew up?
The red lead to the blue/yellow wire and the black lead to the gray/blue wire read positive.
THe other way around read negative.
This means the blue/yellow wire is the positive doesn't it?
I hooked the red on the inverter wire to the blue/yellow wire and it fried my inverter.
Could just be a bad inverter, but I'm ordering more.
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