Cigarette lighter wiring

[bartels903]

I have a green and then black wire in the ciggarette lighter which is ground and which is power?

 

[VTRICCO]

green is power black is ground

 

[bartels903]

And on my radar detector I have a red then white. Red is power right?

 

[VTRICCO]

i would say so yea

 

[always_broken]

Does the ground go in the middle of the cig. lighter or the outer part?

 

[jumpfroggy]

Ground is outer on almost everything, I'm pretty sure it's on the cig lighter too.

Black is ground for almost everything, so that's pretty safe to assume. Red and green are usually positive + voltage. You could get a voltmeter at radioshack ($10-20) and figure things out for sure. They're not hard to use, and kinda fun.

 

[CrusinGST6]

I have 3 colors...Green w/ white stripe....Blue and Black...obviously black is ground and blue is hot...do you connect the green adn white to illumination!?