Police light wiring help needed

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Topic: Police light wiring help needed

Posted By: Detour
Subject: Police light wiring help needed
Date Posted: September 21, 2004 at 2:16 AM

These were off a michigan state police car, that was at the junkyard. I'm just havin a hard time trying to figure out what wire goes for what.

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the one at the top is the one for the headlights. i know the 2 white wires connect to the headlights, the black should be ground and red is power. which leaves me wondering the other 2 wires, orange and green. anyone have an idea what the other 2 connect to?

also the rear flashers are drivin me nuts, theres red, black, white, yellow, blue, & green. anyone know which to hook these up to?

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Posted By: Detour
Date Posted: September 21, 2004 at 2:19 AM

Sorry, topic should have read Caprice wiring for police lights

Posted By: thundog
Date Posted: September 25, 2004 at 3:03 PM

Orange is your "turn on" lead, and the green is "override". Connect one of the leads that lead to the highbeam to the green, that way when you turn on your high beams they will actually work. BTW.. make damn sure you connect the ground wire FIRST. These cheap hamsar flashers are known to spontaniously combust if the ground wire breaks off or gets cut. If there is power or trigger going to it and no ground wire, it will catch on fire. Not good for the car. Hamsar flashers, while made in Canada, have been banned on most Canadian cop cars because of this. Other than that they are a very good "fast rate" solid state flasher.

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