getting ready to use the voltmeter now on the red/black wires coming form the controller I will check the specs on the light kit. I'm guessing the voltage should be low for the light kit, like 5v or less. The power connector from the light kit is yellow/black and I don't know which is + or -.
Unless you don't care what happens, you shouldn't just guess what the kit needs and connect it to something and hope; you could start a fire in the wiring or electronics, or blow up your controller, battery, etc.
The controller was part of a e-wheel kit.
I managed to find this and as it shows the red/black coming from the controller is in fact for the light. Now I just need to figure out the polarity on the yellow/black wire from the light kit.
Well with that information I got the light working, but not as it should. Headlight turns on, but no running light for the tail light. Signals work only when holding the brake handle in. Tail light only lights up when the brakes are applied. Could be the controller is not talking to the light kit very well. After all that work I just had to laugh.
To tell the truth I've not seen that post, but that info gives me something to run with in my search. Thank you very much, Google here I come.....................................................again...lol
Do you have any pictures???
can you use this diagram to show me what wires you moved?
I Reversed the black and white in the two circled wires. With the controller turned on I now have headlight, tail light and turn signals but no brake light. With the headlight turned off I have no tail light but the signal lights work. When the tail light is on it's so bright it makes me think that it's the brake light not the running light. At least your suggestion got more working than was working before. Now I just need my brake light and running light to work.
Those were the connectors that I was referring to. I also remember adding a ground, however, I don’t remember where I got the ground from. I was testing and trying, then it worked and I left it.
lol You will take that secret to the grave with you. I ordered another tail light for this kit because while removing a zip tie I cut the black and white wire on the lead that comes from the tail light. I reconnected them but they were cut so close to the molax that the connection is not reliable. The tail light I ordered has the same molax and the wires are the same colors.
I'm 74 years old and retired. I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about this stuff, thus my middle of the night questions. Trying to get this thing going for my little lady and she's looking at me with a raised eyebrow thinking bit off a little more than you can chew this time didn't you oldman. I'm not too good when it comes to electrical things but I will muddle through this.
I was able to find out what all the wires from the controller were and also others have done the same hook up as well. So power has been applied but if you have been following this thread you know I'm still working through some other problems with this kit.
I know you are an admin, but I reported this message as demeaning.Unless you don't care what happens, you shouldn't just guess what the kit needs and connect it to something and hope; you could start a fire in the wiring or electronics, or blow up your controller, battery, etc.
Same thing for wiring polarity, current draw, etc.
If the light kit doesn't have instructions that tell you these things, and you can't get that info from the seller, you'll either have to disassemble it to reverse engineer it to find out what you need to know (if you know enough electronics to figure out how it works and how much current it will take and what voltage it needs to run), or return it and buy a kit that does have that info, and is compatible with the stuff you have.
If you have enough money to replace the controller, light kit, battery, wiring, etc., when it gets damaged due to a simple lack of information...you could just spend that money on a kit that has the info instead.
I ordered another tail light so now I may open up the bad tail light and see if your idea helps. Thank you for your help
My apologies, it was not meant to be. We get a fair number of complete newbies here that assume things work a certain way without checking anything, and then are upset (sometimes at us) when things blow up even after they just keep telling us they "guess" that things work that way. Your responses suggested this was another case of that, so I spoke "sternly" trying to show what could happen by doing this, to help prevent you from damaging your parts and wasting your time/money or worse. I could probably have worded it better.
