BLDTruth

resistor needs to have ground or its no good - when I installed them for my led tail lamps I had to splice one end into the power and one into the ground, like so:

Steve83

NO THAT'S WRONG. The resistor goes from one side of the ALT light (with the battery icon) to the other side; NEITHER side of that light is "ground" or "negative". The light is inside the cluster (dotted box in the lower Right corner of this diagram); both the light bulb AND the resistor (in parallel) simply connect the 2 wires:


(phone app link)

It's wired the way BLDTruth's pic shows, but it's NOT the way he explained.

Inside Man