Testing and Troubleshooting a Modulite Vehicle Wiring Harness Video

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Modulite Vehicle Wiring Harness Testing and Troubleshooting

All right today we are going to go over how to check over a modulite as shown right here which converts a 5 wire to a 4 wire system. We are going to go over the basics which are really simple. Basically we are just going to test input into the modulite and test the output of the modulite. That will tell us one of two things, we have no input going into the modulite, that means there is something… see more >

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