striped and solid color wires

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Topic: striped and solid color wires

Posted By: paradox_108
Subject: striped and solid color wires
Date Posted: August 25, 2007 at 4:24 AM

Hi guys,

I've did a quite few radio installs before and I have always used striped wires as negative, and solid colors as positive. Today I went to a local electronics store to get a power connector for a reversing camera. The connector will have to be made, so the people there said to use the BLACK/ white as positive and black and negative.

Are they right? I'm just getting confused now.

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Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: August 25, 2007 at 7:00 AM

General rule of thumb is, if the stripe is black it is a negative. Stripes of any other color are usually positive.

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