Thread: Help with a wiper motor please?

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Hi all!
I'm so excited!! My wiper motor order from Monsterguts has finally arrived and I can't wait to start working with it! But I'm not sure if I should know something I don't know before plugging it in. I don't want to connect the wrong wires to the wrong spots. I looked at a bunch of tutorials on using wiper motors, but the only thing I couldn't find was if there is a certain way to connect these wires to this connector thingy.


Both wires seem to be identical, but I'm not sure which pegs in this connector box to attach them to. Is it just the two pegs that have wires attached to the other side? Or is there some sort of grounding I need to take into consideration? I don't want to attach them to the most obvious pegs and turn it on and accidentally destroy it because one wire should have been used for grounding instead or something. Can I assume that because there is no indication of which one might be positive and which negative that this is not a concern? If anybody can give me any insight into this, I'd certainly appreciate it!

Thanks in advance!

So you have 5 terminal/prong things coming from the wiper motor, this is where the 2 wires need to go. For the slow speed option you should connect the wires to prongs 1 and 2.For fast speed it is 1 and 4.

So

slow= 1+2
fast=1+4

this picture shows high speed.


There is no grounding. Another tip is to make sure that your power supply has enough amps, 5 amps is probably more than enough.

hope this helped.

Thank you Phil that was EXACTLY what I needed to know! You're a lifesaver!

no problem

Glad i helped .