WAECO 80 litre Wiring Diagram

Mal,

I'm assuming you've cut off the cig/hella socket. Undo this and look at the wires, from memory one is marked with a white stripe and one is plain black. Whichever one goes to the "pin" end of the plug is the positive.

Also from memory I think the fridge has polarity protection so if you wire it wrong it won't do any harm, just won't run. BUT, I'm not 100% on this.

Cheers,

Jim.

Thanks Jim & Tony

Unfortunately the twin wire is just black, no stripes. So I have to guess which black lines up with the other black. LOL

I don't want to take the chance of just plugging it back in.

Malcolm

Malcolm,

if you cant figure it out or are nervous about it, be safe and buy a new power lead.

Might cost $20 but better than blowing something up.

Cheers

Cruiser

Malcom,

If you look carefully at the cable you will see that one side of the "figure 8" profile has several raised ridges running along the plastic sheath. That is the negative conductor.

Thanks guys ....

Now if I had been really observant I would have see that ridge = negative -ve
The other wire has some manuafacturer's writing embossed on it = positive +ve

LOL I actually had the wires connected correctly but did not want to take the chance of blowing up the frig.

Thanks for all the help - problem solved - beers cooling down. I'll have one or two for each of you ;-)

Malcolm