Has a blue wire and a brown wire. Which is positive and which is negative?? Anyone else run into this?
1371944
On mine, red wire to + and Black wire to - you can try yours either way until it lights up. They only light up when hooked up correctly.
1371945
The european standard for dc wiring is brown is +vdc and blue is -vdc. Try that.
1371946
Mine were red and black. However, if you can get a small battery like a 9 volt and touch them to it, it will only work one way and shouldn't blow the bulbs. I did this with mine just to check because I didn't have a multimeter at the time.
1618220
Polarity does matter, but the wire colors have changed from batch to batch (I've ordered several pairs over the past few years), making trial and error the only way to tell which is positive and which is negative. There is no harm hooking it up backwards, it just won't work until hooked up correctly. I have only had one break a wire internally (after crashing the dirtbike and breaking the mounting screw, it dangled by the wire for several miles before we noticed it.) Once home, just took it apart and re-soldered the wire to the board, replaced the broken screw, and back in business again.
1267136
The yellow with green is the ground,NEC, National Electrical Code Book.I noticed the light is rated 85 to 250 volt therefore either blue or brown can be use as the hot.I connected mine to a 120 volt line Blue to Hot and brown as neutral and they work fine.........Additional information On 120 Volt system the blue is HOT the brown is the neutral..I found out it will trip a GFCI receptacle using the blue as neutral and brown as hot
1285168
Hard wiring. There is a positive and negative coming out of the bottom of the light.
1987106
Three wires rgb indicates red green blue. V indicates ground or negative. Use a dmx512. Use youtube for I structions
440893
You should just need to change the two wires, it sounds like wired backwards. On my set, the wire colors were different between the right and left housings, the ground wire is the same color on both housings.
654132
Thanks, for your question. The ones I purchased from Amazon I had installed by my Son so I could not honestly tell you why one would have 3 wires or two. Now, with that being said my home was built in 1995 so it's not that really old. I cam assuming that depending on how old or new is your home may make a difference. When I see three wire I think positive, negative and ground. A suggestion, you maybe able to connect the negative to the ground making two wires instead of three. Your neighbor if they have the same home chances are they may have change there also so they be of some help also. Good Luck..
1797267
Yes, circuits may be reversed. The 'Positive = P' sits under the 'negative' button. And my dog reacts accordingly, positive=lower button she comes, upper button = negative and she runs as 'wholly hell' is after her. Return the item against a new one.
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The ones I used only had a blue and brown wire and the brown is positive and blue negative. The unit will also work on 12 VAC since there is a circuit inside to rectify and filter the power to 12 VDC. So, I suspect that this new Green/Yellow wire is for ground. I had several of these circuits fail because I was using in in a 12VDC system with a charging circuit that would take the voltage up to 14.5 VDC. You can allow for this if you add a 5 ohm/5 watt resistor in series with either the blue or brown wire.
53525
There are both negative and positive terminals, in the picture the positive it next to the line of fuses and the negative terminals are all in the lower right. You connect the positive load wires on the lugs to the outside of the fuse block.
1187704
Usually the center connector is Positive. Use your DMM to determine the polarity.
2157905
black wire is a ground.. common sense says black is ALMOST ALWAYS negative/ground.
245416
One wire goes to positive, but the other wire just needs to be grounded to your vehicle, not the negative wire, this should fix the problem.
679437
In America, answers stating that yellow/green stripe is "ground" are correct (green wire in USA). Regarding the other two wires (brown and blue), even though it's AC and to remain standardized, the "brown" wire is considered "hot" (Black wire in USA), and the "blue" wire is considered "neutral" (white wire in USA). Thus, "green/yellow" wire connects to USA "green", "brown" wire connects to USA "black", and "blue" wire connects to USA "white". If you're confused, my apologies...just Wikipedia it...Wiki even has pictures!!! To summarize, green/yellow to GREEN, brown to BLACK, and blue to WHITE. Just a footnote,the other connection will work....it's just not "standard".
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I wanna say check wire diagram , look for wire labeled "park" (or similar). I will look into this issue for ya, if not resolved already.
1644428
simple speaker wire positive and negative. On my system I have a dedicated subwoofer positive and negative terminal.
1556336
That one stumped me too. Nothing in the instructions, although they do mention 12 VDC for that wire somewhere in a diagram. The instructions were horrible, and the thing never powered on. I returned it and got a refund. My suggestion is you do the same.