What color wire

Realgun

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I have a bildge pump-brown<br />I have two nav lights-Grey<br />I have a horn-? What color is used for a horn orange? Red? as it is the positive side. Gray cause I have 100 feet of it :) <br /><br />All negatives are yellow in my boat.
 

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Re: What color wire

Ralph that helps but is the horn an accessory?<br />Then its orange.<br />I know its a requirement.
 

18rabbit

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Re: What color wire

Well, Realgun, it’s yellow for gnd only if you solder. Black if you crimp. Yellow with a black tracer is you crimp and solder...unless you are below the Mason-Dixon (you know foreigners are wondering what that is). If below the M-D, pink for gnd...unless you are east of the Mississippi. Then it doesn’t matter because you are required to use duct tape to hold everything together anyways. As for the horn, I thought they were outlawed in I'll-be-quirky.<br /> :D <br /><br />Btw, gray makes the most sense to me...something about you already having 100-ft of it.
 

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Re: What color wire

Just got done crawling around under the dash of a new Stratos Bass boat today. Remember the horn leads being orange. I remember that cause it was dead in the road of what I wanted to do.
 

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Re: What color wire

I had some red left over from another part of the boat so its red. :) And you can see the wire from under the dash and where it goes. <br /><br />I ran out of yellow so I used grey from the bow light 90% of the way to the fuse panel then the last 10% is yellow. :) <br /><br /><br />At this point I am dead beat. I wired up everything but the switches. At least everything works after I reset the breaker. :eek: <br /><br />I hate it when you assume you have power and you tell the wife here goes the pretty lights and she just looks at you when they don't, that about normal. :D
 

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Re: What color wire

Hre's what I did for a similar problem (way too much red wire in stock). Ever few feet I taped a bit of masking tape on the wire with the color written on it - so the red becomes whatever you want.<br /><br />Aldo
 
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