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Jan 12th, 2012, 12:11 am
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Fresno, CA, Fresno
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848 reverse polarity help...
Trying to get my new led parking lights to work and everone keeps saying "just reverse the polarity" but I can't find any pics about this anywhere and I'm not an electrical Guy but I was told its very easy. Can someone walk me threw this process? This will be the first time "taking" my bike kinda apart. Thanks in advance!
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Jan 12th, 2012, 12:25 am
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Orion, Illinois, USA
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Reverse Polarity=Switch your negative lead with your positive
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Jan 12th, 2012, 12:49 am
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Fresno, CA, Fresno
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Yes but where is this? Not at the light housing itself right? This is my first ducati I was amazed when I took my seat off And the battery wasn't there LOL. So should I just follow the parking light wire to the source then switch those?
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Jan 12th, 2012, 2:48 am
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Old Cafe Racer
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Switch them at the lights.
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Jan 12th, 2012, 8:38 am
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Boston, MA, USA
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Under the headlights there are two smaller "bulb holders" Twist left and pull out. Put your new LED bulb in and check if they light up. If not, unplug the holder and remove the pins, flip them and put them back.
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Jan 12th, 2012, 8:43 am
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Location: Cleveland, OH,
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...and STEP BY STEP with pictures (we all love pics don't we?)
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Jan 12th, 2012, 9:57 am
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Fresno, CA, Fresno
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cerberus
...and STEP BY STEP with pictures (we all love pics don't we?) |
ty sooooo much!! i was looking for that!! but sometimes search isnt as great as you want it to be!!
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Jan 12th, 2012, 6:51 pm
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: NYC, NY, United States
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Hold on there
LED's are polarity dependant!!! LED's will not work like normal bulbs by reversing polarity. Some LED's will even burn out if you do.
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Jan 13th, 2012, 9:51 pm
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Fresno, CA, Fresno
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Quote:
Originally Posted by efiniGTX
LED's are polarity dependant!!! LED's will not work like normal bulbs by reversing polarity. Some LED's will even burn out if you do.
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this is what the manufacturer of the led told me to do. if it causes a burn out it will be on him
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Jan 18th, 2012, 1:13 am
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Fresno, CA, Fresno
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New polarity question but I didn't want to start a new thread. So I got the led problem fixed and it was the highbeam side. Time to put in hids and I hear the polarity is a problem here too. So I read other sites and They say that the lowbeam side needs to be reversed. Can this be? Why can't the polarity problem just be on one side! So confused. So is this problem due to different manufacturers? Or is this just how the Ducati is??
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