how to find wires?

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Topic: how to find wires?

Posted By: skyline_man
Subject: how to find wires?
Date Posted: May 06, 2003 at 12:19 PM

This might be a silly question, but i don't know how to find the wires eg. ( - ) door trigger wire. How can you tell using the multimetre? do you connect the black lead of the multimeter to ground and the red lead to the wire you think is the ( - ) door trigger wire and if the multimetre reads - 12 volts when you open the door , then it's the correct wire?

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Posted By: Patel
Date Posted: May 06, 2003 at 12:59 PM

srry close but no spliff

set meter to DC voltage (12V or 20V)

connect (+) lead to 12V contast
prode wires with (-) lead until meter shows 12 volts when tiggerd

in somes cases (ford) its a positive tigger so connect the (-) lead to ground and probe target wires with (+) lead untill meter shows 12 volts

make sure to the wire u find cathces all the doors

Posted By: skyline_man
Date Posted: May 07, 2003 at 9:43 AM

Thanks

Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: May 07, 2003 at 9:46 AM

You might want to check out this thread.

I asked how to use a DMM a while back, and this thread has a couple of good sites on it.

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