Thread: Help with Electrickery Please.

I confess, this is the wifes subaru, and not my disco but help appreciated all the same.

Fitting steel bar to forester, all good. Have made cut outs and installed some simple Narva front indicators. They cost me $8 eack. They are p/n 87280 here: Front Direction Indicator - Products - Narva

So far wiring them in has cost me $80 in subaru fuses and relays!

There is one globe, two poles inside the lamp. One pole is insulated, and appears to be connected to the centre contact of the bulb. The other pole does not appear insulated and appears to make contact with the sleeve of the bulb.

I had thought I could tap into the two wires going to the indicator, take the earth (blacK) to the outside pole, and the power (blue green) to the inside pole, and all would be well. That is exactly how I wired the leds to the rear bar. That does not appear to be working and so far I have busted numerous simple fuses to the indicator circuit, and some hybrid subari fuses for the power windows which cost a fortune. What am I doing wrong?

I have a multimeter, but am not exactly skilled in its use.

Another check to do, when confirming earth:

When measuring for earth, turn on the parkers and other lights. Sometimes you get something that looks like earth, but isn't when the lights go on.



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