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i tried doing that mod of the cathode lights in the trunk today. i connected wires n all and nothing lit up. idk wut happened. could the inverter box be defective? one of my bulbs arrived broken in the mail so i emailed case-mod.com to send me another one, but no one replied. dont order from those punks. wuts wrong?
did you test the line by hooking your stock light back up? if that lights then it's your cathode unit. Also the one you bought was there a switch that came with it, did you play with that to see if it would work? Did you conect the united/cathodes/ switch in the correct order?
either that or you are locked inside your trunk wondering why the light isn't on.
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hook it up to your computer...what it was intended for. It should just plug straight in with the molex connector to the power supply...if it works there, then obviously you've got something backwards
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You sure you wired it up right? If you mixed the ground and power wires, you could've blown the inverter. I went to brungold's place so he could help me with this mod. It took us 30 minutes of trying to figure out which was which... and then we finally did. So, yeah... oh and I guess you just got a faulty shipment, because I ordered from case-mods and mine came perfect.
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i connected it to the wires, it didnt work so i switched wires...and still nothing. i used the DIY i saw. i cut all off except black and red wires. blah blah. i dont wanna take my computer apart to test it lol. and yes the stock light was working. so did hooking it up wrong the first way blow the inverter? cuz both my stock wires were red so i didnt know.
Well, one of the stock wires, if you look closely, is red with a white stripe, and the other one is solid red. I BELIEVE that the red with the stripe is the power wire, but I'm not sure. On my Gen 5, my wires were red and green, with green being the ground. Its possible that you blew that inverter, but I'm not sure. brungold or SnakeEyes would probably know more about that...
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If you tried wiring it both ways, your inverter is dead. Should've done it right the first time and used a test light to figure out which wire was positive from your car or look up wire color codes online. They have charts everywhere. Just buy another kit and keep the bulbs you have now as spare. 2 or 3 of the kits i ordered from case mod came with broken bulbs so i asked them to just send me spare bulbs to replace, and they did. i didn't even have to send proof. i had no problems with them.
if you have a multimeter you should use that to check which one is hot (you sure you connected your battery back right?).
post up a pic of how your wiring is now after your cutting and i can see if you are connecting anything wrong. either way, hopefully you should be getting a new kit soon!
well i disconnected everything now. im gunna order another set i guess. so from the set, the red goes to the red and white wire. and black goes to solid red?
umm i would think solid red to solid red, and red/white to black.. anyone else confirm?
yup correct (correct me if im wrong), the wire with a stripe of another color is always ground and the solid color is always positive. damm car company's cant just use black and red wire
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