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Offline mathbishop

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Ground wires
« on: March 24, 2013, 08:35:26 AM »
Just got an after market speedometer (bikers choice mini gauge) and it has loads of wiring going on.

My understanding is that green wires are grounds

Does it matter where green wires go as long as they are being grounded?

Also anybody have any tips to wire up one of those mini gauges. I'm shooting in the dark in this one. Which I have gotten good at but nothing beats knowing what your doing.

Offline SHORTROUND

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Re: Ground wires
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2013, 01:13:37 PM »
The Honda green wire is a ground. it doesn't matter which one you tap into; they're all connected together.

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Re: Ground wires
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2013, 05:31:18 PM »
On the 750s you did not say what you had, there is actually an extra green wire to ground.
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Offline bjbuchanan

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Re: Ground wires
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2013, 05:57:07 PM »
If it has the turn signal light in there you are gonna have to pay attention to how it is wired if you don't remove your dash wiring and use that.

Blue and orange are turn signals, green is ground, black is power. Light power can come from brown wires like how the headlight is brown/red

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