Please help identifying which wire is the ground and hot for a fuel gage

BayouNola

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First thanks for reading my post . Im not an electrician and I need to install this new Twin Site Guage to the fuel sending unit. if you look close at the picture you can see that both wires are solid black. But the wire to the left has small white dots all the way down the wire. Would that mean that the wire with the white dots should be connected to the red hot going to the instrument panel. Or is it the ground. I wouod hate to connect it wrong. Thanks for your help.
 

jhebert

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...the wire with the white dots should be connected to the red hot going to the instrument panel. Or is it the ground[?]I wouod hate to connect it wrong. Thanks for your help.

The fuel tank level gauge sender is just a resistor. Resistors do not have a polarity.
 

UncleWillie

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The marked wire, Dots/Stripes/Ridges, usually indicates the Common/Ground lead.
In this case, as previously stated, it is a variable resistor and will make no difference.

You can't mess this one up! :D
 
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