Stop in for a cup of coffee

Non self powered. Battery hooked up.
One to ground, the other end probe the terminal of interest.

Like this.
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This shows the positive circuit works but doesn't test the headlight socket's ground.

If that works, then check the headlight ground circuit.
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So just to check myself, to test the ground circuit it’s the opposite, so I’ll connect one end to the ground and the other to the positive terminal in the socket??