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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:47 pm 
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I am currently using my cigarette lighter to power a light in my car and i want to cut the wires on the light so i can wire it up somewhere else there are two color wires a silver and a darker color which is the ground and which is the positve? if there is any other way to figure this out let me know thanks everyone


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Do you mean one wire is silver and the other darker (like copper) or that the plastic coating on one is silver and the plastic coating on the other is darker?



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hmm the plastic coating is a blue see through color but the wires are silver and a darker color which i can't see very well through the blue plastic


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Silver is normally the ground side, although not always...easiest way to tell..disassemble the cigarette lighter plug...the wire which goes to the center tip of the lighter plug is the positive, the one which goes to the clips on the sides is negative...



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might be a good idea to pick up a 12V test light.... they're inexpensive and really handy for figuring out stuff like you're talking about.



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