Correct wiring of lights??

Jan

I have installed 2 front lights ( 12 volt fog lights ) and 2 rear lights. Initially they worked very briefly threw the switch I installed and there is a fuse in the line and were wired with one wire going directly to the battery. They quit working almost immediately and this is the first chance I've had to get back to it. The switch has 3 prongs, ground, all lights and hot or power prong. I ran a wire right fron the positive post on the battery and touched it to what I believe is the hot wire and all lights lit. What am I missing? Should they be wired to the key switch? Can you wire 4 lights to work on a cart? Any help would be appreciated. Thankyou in advance to those that respond.

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ruredy

have installed 2 front lights ( 12 volt fog lights ) and 2 rear lights. Initially they worked very briefly threw the switch I installed and there is a fuse in the line and were wired with one wire going directly to the battery. They quit working almost immediately and this is the first chance I've had to get back to it. The switch has 3 prongs, ground, all lights and hot or power prong. I ran a wire right fron the positive post on the battery and touched it to what I believe is the hot wire and all lights lit. What am I missing? Should they be wired to the key switch? Can you wire 4 lights to work on a cart? Any help would be appreciated. Thankyou in advance to those that respond.

Kinda hard to make out what your saying, did you blow the fuse? did the test wire bypass the fuse?
also are you saying you ran a ground to the switch?

gornoman

His 3 terminal switch would have an LED in it so a ground wire is needed to complete that indicator circuit.

autoslot

Sounds like the switch is wired incorrectly and turning on the switch tied power directly to ground.
Remove the ground wire from the switch. Try the light switch. If the wires still get hot, you got something connected wrong at the lights. Don't hook the ground wire back to the light switch until you are sure everything works correctly.

ruredy

he has another thread (to replace this thread I guess) where he melted the wires on his cart with the lights