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Phil 850
PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:18 pm 
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I contacted Stedi today and they informed me that the LED headlights are polarity sensitive and therefore can’t be used with positive earth vehicles.

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TDS76
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If you run the LED +ve side to ground and -ve side to your switch/relay it should work with a +ve earth car.

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TDS76 wrote:
If you run the LED +ve side to ground and -ve side to your switch/relay it should work with a +ve earth car.

Yes, correct. I don’t know why Steadi would not have said just that.
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Mick
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Yes, and you are right. You just need to be certain that the exposed metal surfaces(which will be used as heat sinks) do not share a common with the ground wire. Something easy in the hand to check, but harder over the internet. perhaps ask convertiblemini.

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Yes, and you are right. You just need to be certain that the exposed metal surfaces(which will be used as heat sinks) do not share a common with the ground wire.

Mount them up in plastic headlamp buckets? Not much airflow to the heatsinks though...
At least you could decide your earth.

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