Testing a door lock actuator for Dummies

nischwartz

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I'm pretty clearly in need of a replacement actuator for my 98 civic hx passenger side door. I've seen in a few posts about testing the actuator by running power directly off the battery. Never having done this before it seems to me as though they are saying to run a wire off one of the battery terminal directly to the harness of the actuator.

Can anyone with experience give me a little how-to for testing this? Here is the diagram of interest:
 


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