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#95494 04/28/2006 2:21 AM | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 390 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 390 | A recent powersurge blew out all my lights.One new one works the other doesnt.I asume the 2 terminals opisite one another are high and low?and the bottom one ground?On high i asume i should have curent to 2 terminals?If the above is corect then i shouldnt have curent at all three on high as i do now,didnt check low.Im geussing ive got a hot wire and ground makeing contact?
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#95495 04/28/2006 4:17 AM | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 | Actually, the ground is the right side of the "U" as you are looking at the back of the bulb. The bottom is the low beams, and the left is the high beams. For more information, Click Here | | |
#95496 04/28/2006 4:26 AM | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 55 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 55 | you will get curint if u use youre com (ground) and your hot but you will probibly blow the fuse in your neater what you should d0 is look fore volts. | | |
#95497 05/01/2006 3:23 PM | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,048 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,048 | I was checking my dimmer switch just the other day and determined that as I switched it back and forth I would get continuity from the power in terminal to only one power out terminal at a time. This leads me to believe that on low beam one wire is hot and on high beam the other wire is hot. Not both at the same tine.
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#95498 05/02/2006 12:14 AM | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 | fusable links will help http://www.stovebolt.com/bboard/cgi-bin//ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=001675#000005 http://www.madelectrical.com/electricaltech/onewire-threewire.shtml
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#95499 05/02/2006 10:54 PM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 Riding in the Passing Lane | | Riding in the Passing Lane Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 | You are correct on the dimmer switch test.
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