door alarm led wiring

[midcuk]

daft question but both the wires to the door led are grey which is which as i want to change it for blue ?

chris

 

[Cupramax]

Even dafter question... why? Put a multimeter on them and find out which is live...

 

[Cupramax]

Just re read that and thought you meant blue wiring I gues you mean a blue led...

This should help.

 

[Pabs]

yeh i would just stick a multi-meter across the two wires, when it reads a +ve 12v or whatever u know which cable is which...

 

[midcuk]

sorry yes blue led
the origional wires going in to the red led are both grey and i dont have a multimeter

thanks foir info so far mate

 

[Pabs]

^^^^ what he said then. You might be unlucky and find both legs of the LED have been cut shorter, meaning you cannot tell which is which. So best bet is to look at the LED itself - as the very helpful diagram shows

 

[midcuk]

ok im a total spanner i admit it

thanks guys

 

[stpete]

Flat on plastic body is also negative!

 

[ibiza_95]

Just test it.
It doesnt matter if you put the led on the wrong way, it just wont work. if it doesnt work then you know it goes on the other way...
simple as

 

[Pabs]

Just test it.
It doesnt matter if you put the led on the wrong way, it just wont work. if it doesnt work then you know it goes on the other way...
simple as

thats just the cheats way out.
lol

 

[stpete]

yup thats Cheatin!!!!

 

[Arctic]

easy tho!

 

[J@mes]

thats just the cheats way out.
lol

thats wat i did!

 

[Pabs]

ppffftttt. amateurs the lot of ya

 

[Pabs]

oh, and i hope you dont use the same means of testing when playing with 240v+......

 

[midcuk]

well ive managed it woo hoo

thanks guys (only took 3 hrs) worked put it all back together again and stoped working doh !

sorted in the end though

 

[J@mes]

took me 30mins to do the "conversion", soldering the lot!

 

[midcuk]

took me 30mins to do the "conversion", soldering the lot!

show off

 

[J@mes]

i cheated... i didnt take the door card off!

 

[Pabs]

on the subject of door locks/pins/wiring/leds....

has anyone got a clue about the doorpin arm? By this i mean the arm that goes from the lock up to the doorpin that you can see move when you lock/unlock the car. Obviously only if you have the door pins. I want to remove this arm - but not quite sure how it comes off - on ETKA it seems to have a strange shape at the bottom, and IIRC last time i had my door card off it went into a rubber grommet then into the door.....
Can I just pull it out? Perhaps this should be aimed at the likes of Fl@pper, Syphon etc..?