Dime City Mini Gauge Speedo/Diode Wiring - CB360

[el barto]

Hi dudes. Can someone please explain to me how I go about connecting up
this diode to the turn signal wires of this gauge?

Thank you thank you.

 

[strang]

Don't know if this is what you are trying to do but this is how diodes were wired into the indicators on my mini guage. Diode stops the power flowing back from the gauge to the indicators.

 

[el barto]

Still doesn't make sense to me. Ha ha. But thanks for the diagram.

:-[ :-\ :'(

 

[mydlyfkryzis]

Still doesn't make sense to me. Ha ha. But thanks for the diagram.

:-[ :-\ :'(

The "1N4003" in the bottom right of the schematic are the 2 diodes. The 2 wires that go to the old indicator lamp each get a diode, and the output from the 2 diodes are put together. That single wire goes to the indicator wire/lamp on your gauge.

 

[el barto]

The "1N4003" in the bottom right of the schematic are the 2 diodes. The 2 wires that go to the old indicator lamp each get a diode, and the output from the 2 diodes are put together. That single wire goes to the indicator wire/lamp on your gauge.

Thanks for this. So how does it work with the two indicator wires coming out of the gauge? Do they both get two diodes each? Or does one wire get connected to the diodes and the other wire goes somewhere else? Dunno if I'm making sense with those questions...

This is the diagram from DCC:

 

[strang]

I think each of your speedo functions has it's own earth, hence two wires - easy to check with a battery. If so just wire up your indicators as per the schematic and connect one wire to the incoming diodes/hot wire and the other to earth. Are you rewiring or patching into a stock harness?

 

[el barto]

I think each of your speedo functions has it's own earth, hence two wires - easy to check with a battery. If so just wire up your indicators as per the schematic and connect one wire to the incoming diodes/hot wire and the other to earth. Are you rewiring or patching into a stock harness?

It's going into the stock harness. So if the BLUE wire in the below pic goes into one of the indicator wires, where do the two RED wires go to? The left and right indicators?

 

[philly_75CB360]

It's going into the stock harness. So if the BLUE wire in the below pic goes into one of the indicator wires, where do the two RED wires go to? The left and right indicators?

Red goes to the two wires that went into the original indicator and Blue connects to the new indicator Yellow wire

 

[mydlyfkryzis]

The original indicator actually has 2 "Hot" wires. When you put the left signal on, the 12V goes to the indicator on one side of the the bulb and "grounds through the right side blinkers (right through the bulbs). The 2 signal bulbs are low enough resistance to ground, that they act as a straight wire to ground. The reverse happens on a right turn. With LED signals, that low "ground" current is still enough to light the LED signals, so the diodes are used to prevent it. So now when the left signal is on, you go through one diode, the other prevent feeding back to the right side, and the power has to go through the indicator bulb (or LED) and then directly to ground.

Hope that helps a little.

The 2 red wires are easy, one to the original indicator wire (or "left " signal hot wire, and one to the other indicator (or "right" signal hot wire).

 

[el barto]

Thanks guys. Appreciate it.