the red is the 3000+ black 3000- white wire is the shunt the shunt is whatcauses the voltage to jump across the red andblack leads the shunt is neg when it fires some of the voltage goes back through the shunt and rearmsor starts the recharge for the next firing of the flash yopu can not conect the red and black togetter as it will short the system and the white dose nothing till trigered the is very little current avalable for what you want unless you fire the gun powder with the 3000 volt jump