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Uh-Oh -- Help?
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:55 am
by acg
I have been a lurker for awhile and I now want to ask for help. i went out today to change the DOT lights to the OEM and I decided to keep them with the DOT until I could get someone to hook them up for me so they both run together -- I didn't trust my electrical skills. Anyway -- i disconnected them and put them exactly the way they were and now they turn on but are no longer blinking.....uuuggghhhh. I should've known better than to mess them myself. Can anyone help me? Oh ---and now -- I have to kick start it -- to run. Nice.
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:10 am
by brat
sounds like you crossed your wires. I think you are running your battery dry, due to the crossed wires. Which means the power is running to the bulb than to the switch. So it will not blink.
Please correct me if I am wrong. It is a shot in the dark.
Susan
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:18 am
by acg
Yeah -- I've tried everything....it's brown to brown and black to black. Not sure how else to figure it out. I'm afraid to touch it now....my poor buddy.
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:32 pm
by acg
Hi there -- just got my Buddy looked at ---and I am glad to say that I did hook it up right (i'm glad about that...because I felt like a dumbass), and for some reason a fuse had blown.
My Buddy is better than ever!!!!!
Thanks for your input Susan.
Blown Fuse Causation...
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:46 am
by Roose Hurro
Tell me... did you disconnect your battery
before you fiddled with the wiring?
All you had to do was touch the end of a wire somewhere it shouldn't have touched, and if power still flowed, that could have made the fuse go "POP!"....
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:13 am
by acg
You're absolutely right.....lets just keep it between us tho
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:16 am
by Keys
I won't tell anyone....
--Keys
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:14 am
by acg
Thanks Keys -- you're all right
The Tailor...
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:10 am
by Roose Hurro
Hey... lips are sewed shut!
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:23 pm
by acg
Hey thanks guys! Where were ya when I wasn't disconnecting the battery? Heh...
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:36 am
by Keys
Sorry, man, I was home takin' a nap...
--Keys
Knowledge is Power...
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:31 am
by Roose Hurro
Hey, it all came with the degree in electronics... ought to see (and hear) what happens to a polarized capacitor when it's plugged in backwards...
*bada boom, bada
ting!*
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