which wire is positive?

[soundbeltfarm]

connecting some new indicators onto my bike and it has a wire from the led indicator and has a connector that says clip it onto the positive indicator wire.
the wires are black and the black with white line.
which one will be positive?
is it the one that goes onto the base of the lightbulb socket?

[ManDownUnder]

connecting some new indicators onto my bike and it has a wire from the led indicator and has a connector that says clip it onto the positive indicator wire.
the wires are black and the black with white line.
which one will be positive?
is it the one that goes onto the base of the lightbulb socket?

Strike them together and watch which way the spark jumps... it jumps TO the +ve wire...

Problem is it happens at the speed of light so you have to have your wits about you.

Or you could grab a multimeter, put it to DC and put it across the wires. If the reading is a -ve value, the wire connected to the negative probe/clip is the one you want otherwise its the one touching the positive probe...

[bugjuice]

all black is often the neg. Any other colour is often the posi

[TLDV8]

On a TL1000S the Black is positive,the Black/White is going to the Negative terminal on the battery.

http://photos.imageevent.com/tldv8/tlsmaintainence/E24.jpg

[bugjuice]

which is why I said 'often'.

Lick it. It's only 12v, you'll be fine.. One will give you a slight tingle, the other won't do anything. The one that tingles is the live one.

[HDTboy]

If you've only got a test light, clip the lead to the negative terminal on the battery, and turn the indicators on. The wire which makes the test light flash will be the positive

[Pixie]

On Suzuki's black with white stripe is earth/negative

[Macktheknife]

Of course if you really get stuck.... you could just do it the old fashioned way and compare it to the other side wiring!
Generally on suzuki's the black is negative and black/? is positive.

[Pixie]

Of course if you really get stuck.... you could just do it the old fashioned way and compare it to the other side wiring!
Generally on suzuki's the black is negative and black/? is positive.
wrong
see post #7

[soundbeltfarm]

black was positive and i got it all sorted pretty easily. cheers for all the help people

[HDTboy]

How did you end up figuring it out?

[soundbeltfarm]

i went off tldv8 wiring diagram.
but thanks for everyones help.

i emailed kitt from sportsbikes nz who i got the part from and i didnt know how to slow the flashing rate down and it didnt realise the insulator looking things were to slow it down .
but he a top guy he had an elctronic one there and said i could just have it so thats awesome.

[Sniper]

I would have just wired them up and if they didn't work, I would have swapped the wires around.

Be aware thatI have a habit of breaking things

[sefer]

Meh, that'd have worked. Actually I can't really see why they wouldn't work either way around anyway..

[soundbeltfarm]

Meh, that'd have worked. Actually I can't really see why they wouldn't work either way around anyway..

thers 2 wires and only one connects to the led indicator.
so it has to be the positive one.

but they are going strong now.

[scumdog]

Meh, that'd have worked. Actually I can't really see why they wouldn't work either way around anyway..
'Cos sometimes on the whole indicator housing (well non-plastic ones anyway) the earth wire is 'grounded' to the housing, not just to the side of the bulb.
Swap wires and you'll have direct short.

[sefer]

Ah, see that's what you get if you don't read the start of the post to discover it isn't just a standard bulb, plastic indicator :)

[Test Pilot]

get a test light and do it the proper way. Turn the ignition on and the indicator then test which one is flashing on and off with the test light. really simple really, you can also use a multi meter if you dont have a test light

[Test Pilot]

to tell which wire is which on the indicator just look for the wire that is attached to the housing is the earth, or more often than not the packaging usually tells you