<VV> Re: Courtesy light hook up

Kirby Smith kirbyasmith at gwi.net
Sun Jun 26 00:42:12 EDT 2005


I think my case is the "The underdash style harness..." paragraph. 
Except that the distances between the left lamp and the two connectors 
on the two parallel wired lamp leads are not long enough for one of them 
to reach the fuze box.  This suggests that if your wiring description 
applies to my case, I have plugged a wire that does go to the fuse box 
incorrectly to a dome switch connector.  I'll have to review the 
scematic and the wiring in view of your remarks.

Thanks for your help.

kirby


NicolCS at aol.com wrote:
> <snip>I  could wire up a connector based system, but I would really like 
> to know:
> How is this conection supposed to be made? <unsnip>
>  
> I haven't seen the answer to your question yet so..  The cars came one 
> way or the other, mostly and there were different sub-harnesses for each 
> type.
>  
> The sub-harness for the dome lamp style gets constant power 
> (orange) from the fuse box. Any door switch or the headlight switch 
> provides the ground, so both door switches and the headlight switch are 
> connected together and then go to the lamp (white wire). These switches 
> ground directly to the body, so there's only the one wire connected to 
> them. 
>  
> The underdash style harness works exactly the same way except the wire 
> lengths and routing are set for TWO lamps mounted under the dash. In 
> that case the right lamp (orange) goes to the left lamp, and then to the 
> fuse box for constant power.  The right switch (white) goes to the right 
> lamp then to the left lamp, then to the left switch, then to the 
> headlight switch. Either door switch can provide a ground and turn 
> on the lights or the headlight switch can ground and turn on the lights.
>  
> The exception to this is the EM accessory kit which can be added to a 
> car with or without a dome light.  In the accessory kit, each door 
> switch will only turn-on the one, local, underdash lamp and does not 
> turn on the dome lamp. In these kits, the white wire does not cross over 
> from side to side and the orange wire that plugs into the fusebox has a 
> pigtail that provides a place to plug in the existing dome lamp feed, if 
> needed.
> Craig Nicol
> 
>  



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