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Switch Wiring???

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treyrutledge

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I'm fairly certain I just got a bad switch, but I thought I would ask before I gave up on it. I bought a new rocker switch with an led on the switch to replace the switch that came with my cold cathode kit. The switch is working fine turning on the cathode, but the led won't light. My original switch came two prong, one for 12 volt source and the lead to power the lamp. The new switch is three prong, one for 12 volt source, lead to power the lamp, and one for ground to chassis. The last one may be what is confusing me. First, I ran a wire ground to the chassis with a screw (to the harddrive cage). When that did not work, I soldered directly to the black ground off the PSU. No go!!! Am I missing something here or is the switch just screwed??? :confused:
 
make sure and souble check the pinout, and esp. the +12 and output. if it still doesn't work, the switch may be broken.
 
Unfortunately.....you lost me at "pinout" The cathode is working, just the led won't light. Is it ok to put the "ground to chassis" directly to the PSU (black) ground? I gotta believe this ground prong has something to do with the led, because my old switch with no led doesn't have this third prong.
 
yes the gound can go to the case, or a black ground wire coming from the PSU

Pinout - A diagram of which pin/connector/terminal on a device (such as a switch) is supposed to what.
 
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