Headlight Wiring for 1988 Electric

rbobsdog73@aol.com · 02-15-2009, 02:28 PM

Have replaced headlights WITHOUT a wiring diagram! and when I attach to batteries wiring gets hot. What am I doing wrong? Anyone have a wiring diagram for a 1988 electric?

kamm · 02-15-2009, 04:22 PM

Are you grounding it to the body. Thats how I screwed up my wireing. This is how I did mine, I ran the hot wire to the batery that the key switch goes to, positive side then my ground wire went to the negitive side on the battery thats next to it by your grab handle on the drivers side. Hope this helps.

rbobsdog73@aol.com · 02-15-2009, 05:01 PM

the head lights are ground to gether

rusty · 02-15-2009, 09:18 PM

Hello rbobsdog73 and Welcome to the forum.

If your wire is very small, it will melt the insulation off due to the heavy current draw.

rbobsdog73@aol.com · 02-15-2009, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rbobsdog73@aol.com

the head lights are ground to gether

How should I go through the switch when the headlights are grounded together? To make them work without getting hot?

rbobsdog73@aol.com · 02-15-2009, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rusty

Hello rbobsdog73 and Welcome to the forum.

If your wire is very small, it will melt the insulation off due to the heavy current draw.

Checked this not the problem.

scottyb · 02-16-2009, 08:12 AM

All of the 12v accessories on an electric are a 2 wire set up. The body is not used for a ground. So a ground (or negative) wire is run from your power source to the first light and then the next light until all the lights are grounded. The hot (or positive) runs the same way. It is simply interrupted by a key and toggle switch before it gets from the source to the first light..... hope this helps? What is getting hot the lights or the wires? Have you checked the voltage you are running? Is it correct for the lights? Heat in a wire is usually the product of restriction as in too small a wire for the draw?

rbobsdog73@aol.com · 02-16-2009, 09:19 AM

the wire from switch to the battiers is get hot but the insulation is not melting

scottyb · 02-16-2009, 09:52 AM

Have you checked the voltage at the switch? Are you certain it is 12v only? If so no way around this answer. Either the switch is not rated for the amperage or the wire? How hot is hot ?

rbobsdog73@aol.com · 02-16-2009, 10:28 AM

hot enough tto burn fingers will go check and get no 8 wire and wire ends

02-15-2009, 02:28 PM	#1
rbobsdog73@aol.com Not Yet Wild Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 6	Headlight Wiring for 1988 Electric Have replaced headlights WITHOUT a wiring diagram! and when I attach to batteries wiring gets hot. What am I doing wrong? Anyone have a wiring diagram for a 1988 electric?

02-15-2009, 04:22 PM	#2
kamm Not Yet Wild Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 19	Re: Headlight Wiring for 1988 Electric Are you grounding it to the body. Thats how I screwed up my wireing. This is how I did mine, I ran the hot wire to the batery that the key switch goes to, positive side then my ground wire went to the negitive side on the battery thats next to it by your grab handle on the drivers side. Hope this helps.
kamm Not Yet Wild Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 19

02-15-2009, 05:01 PM	#3
rbobsdog73@aol.com Not Yet Wild Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 6	Re: Headlight Wiring for 1988 Electric the head lights are ground to gether

02-15-2009, 09:18 PM	#4
rusty Golf Cart Photographer Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Wichita Falls Texas - My Ride 2010 Club Car Posts: 6,236	Re: Headlight Wiring for 1988 Electric Hello rbobsdog73 and Welcome to the forum. If your wire is very small, it will melt the insulation off due to the heavy current draw.

02-16-2009, 08:12 AM	#7
scottyb Happy Carting Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 73,419	Re: Headlight Wiring for 1988 Electric All of the 12v accessories on an electric are a 2 wire set up. The body is not used for a ground. So a ground (or negative) wire is run from your power source to the first light and then the next light until all the lights are grounded. The hot (or positive) runs the same way. It is simply interrupted by a key and toggle switch before it gets from the source to the first light..... hope this helps? What is getting hot the lights or the wires? Have you checked the voltage you are running? Is it correct for the lights? Heat in a wire is usually the product of restriction as in too small a wire for the draw?

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02-16-2009, 09:19 AM	#8
rbobsdog73@aol.com Not Yet Wild Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 6	Re: Headlight Wiring for 1988 Electric the wire from switch to the battiers is get hot but the insulation is not melting

02-16-2009, 09:52 AM	#9
scottyb Happy Carting Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 73,419	Re: Headlight Wiring for 1988 Electric Have you checked the voltage at the switch? Are you certain it is 12v only? If so no way around this answer. Either the switch is not rated for the amperage or the wire? How hot is hot ?

02-16-2009, 10:28 AM	#10
rbobsdog73@aol.com Not Yet Wild Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 6	Re: Headlight Wiring for 1988 Electric hot enough tto burn fingers will go check and get no 8 wire and wire ends

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