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Old 12-25-2015, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by ckau View Post
you may have the polarity crossed up. in the US standard color coding dictated red is positive and black is ground. WhereasIn some places, particularly china color coding doesn't seem to apply. I've seen ground wires black, red, yellow, purple. It doesn't seem to matter to them. It has had the best of us scratching our heads over a simple project. You have to trace the wires back to insure correct polarity.
Thx for this, it's the only thing I did not think of, I'll check it tomorrow.


Just for "fun" I used calculator and the circuit should be delivering around 1.7 to 2 amps of current to the LED lights, 12v ; 2.1 Amp by design/battery and 14.96v ; 1.7 amps while running off the engine.
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