acc socket

[Quincey]

howdy gang,
need a bit of advice. i bought this two way socket and the black wire has a spade terminal, which would indicate to my little bird brain, should be connected to power. i would have thought the red wire goes to power?
any help is appreciated.

 

[sparkywig]

Red is connected to +ve supply and the black lead to earth.

 

[Happystamps]

can see what you mean though, they have put the terminals on in a pretty topsy-turvy way. i'd have expected the ring terminal to be on the black earth, so you can chuck a self tapper through it.
sparky's absolutely right- he's so right that i wouldn't bother doing what i'm about to suggest- but in future if you wanted to test stuff like this, look inside where you plug in your lighter/plugs. the centre of the socket is the positive section, and there's a metal contact on the outer part which is your negative. if you were ever unsure you could always use a multimeter to test the resistance between these sections and their respective wire ends.

 

[Loxy]

What's it been bought for originally? Not a positive earth car?
Would the wires be reversed then?

 

[alex4057]

american stuff tends to be black as positive just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons!

 

[Jimbly]

Yours looks identical to one I fitted on the underside of mine - is it a marine version?

Anyway, I went with red +ve and black -ve and everything seems to work.

 

[Quincey]

Yeah,Mission accomplished.
It's a marine type one. I put a meter on it and, as advised earlier, red +ve and all works fine.
Thanks for the input