Uh-Oh -- Help?

acg · Post by **acg** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:55 am

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.

brat · Post by **brat** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:10 am

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

acg · Post by **acg** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:18 am

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.

acg · Post by **acg** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:32 pm

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.

Roose Hurro · Post by **Roose Hurro** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:46 am

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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acg · Post by **acg** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:13 am

You're absolutely right.....lets just keep it between us tho

Keys · Post by **Keys** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:16 am

I won't tell anyone....

--Keys

acg · Post by **acg** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:14 am

Thanks Keys -- you're all right

Roose Hurro · Post by **Roose Hurro** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:10 am

Hey... lips are sewed shut!

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acg · Post by **acg** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:23 pm

Hey thanks guys! Where were ya when I wasn't disconnecting the battery? Heh...

Keys · Post by **Keys** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:36 am

Sorry, man, I was home takin' a nap...

--Keys

Roose Hurro · Post by **Roose Hurro** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:31 am

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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