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<p>[QUOTE="mmarco102, post: 428326, member: 8289"]By your images, the green wire doesn’t seem to be connected to the lights. Looks like it was just used to hold(tie) the two lights together. Seeing they only have one wire coming out, the current was completed via ground. Very typical for mobile transportation. A motorcycle would not have the knob to twist and turn. Even the old police search lights had the control inside the vehicle(Think Chicago winters). They were probably used as a spot light on a boat. The switch is for practically and the half dome inside the lens covering the buld makes it a spot light as opposed to a flood seen on most vehicals for moving foward.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO</p><p><br /></p><p>Those lights might have saved somebody’s life <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]149964[/ATTACH]</p><p>Old police search light</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh and not to show my age but it was ...”CAR 54” <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mmarco102, post: 428326, member: 8289"]By your images, the green wire doesn’t seem to be connected to the lights. Looks like it was just used to hold(tie) the two lights together. Seeing they only have one wire coming out, the current was completed via ground. Very typical for mobile transportation. A motorcycle would not have the knob to twist and turn. Even the old police search lights had the control inside the vehicle(Think Chicago winters). They were probably used as a spot light on a boat. The switch is for practically and the half dome inside the lens covering the buld makes it a spot light as opposed to a flood seen on most vehicals for moving foward. IMHO Those lights might have saved somebody’s life :) [ATTACH=full]149964[/ATTACH] Old police search light Oh and not to show my age but it was ...”CAR 54” ;)[/QUOTE]
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