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Over the top?

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Of what?

Just be sure you've got the ground grounded, too.
 
Don- You building one of those eeeeelektrik cars?
 
Gliderman8 said:
Don- You building one of those eeeeelektrik cars?
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I'd be inclined to re-read the instructions. I suspect it reads: one cable, lots of batteries.
 
Why would anyone need that many huge ground cables to the battery? One good stout one to the battery, then the rest can be bolted to the body near whatever piece of stereo equipment or electro-hydraulic unit it's coming from.
 
That looks like the job my son did when he was a Freshman in college and decided he could wire up his super-duper stereo amp himself! He called me about 2PM from his work (at the BX on base) to tell me his 280Z had caught on fire! I spent until 3AM the next morning in the parking lot installing a new (used) harness under his Z's bonnet!
 
Isn't that normal for a "ricer" with the
stereo,neon,etc.?

- Doug
 
I don't get you guys. First you say to check to make sure you've got a good ground, and then when someone does make a good ground you get on their case... :laugh:
 
I gotta admit: That's about th' best attempt at earthin' a car circuit I've ever seen. Guessin' it is a stereo equipment adaptation so expensive it doubled the value of the vehicle, too.

Every time I see/hear that stuff I wanna hand the boy racer in th' driver's seat a bottle of Loctite.

How's come we never seem to hear Vivaldi comin' from these guys' cars? :smirk:
 
I know that battery! It's in a red TR6 living in the tropics on an island! :smile:
 
Bingo on the stereo part. Found the pic while looking for parts for my Wedge wiring re do
 
WOW at this piont in the game does the battery stop becoming a battery and not become a capacitor? I think the post is definitley a fuseable link. :jester:
 
Silverghost said:
I know that battery! It's in a red TR6 living in the tropics on an island! :smile:
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Over look this one.
Funny, Peter, very funny
 
You mean that is not the proper ground connections on a Lotus or TVR???
 
OI!!! We Lotus pushers have actual <span style="font-style: italic">ground circuits</span> right in th' harness of OUR cars. You rustbucket pilots screw stuff to th' panels... how <span style="font-style: italic">very</span> crude. :jester:
 
I think my Europa had a PO who thought fibreglass was a good conductor, to judge from some of the work I see.
 
eep!

Some folk just ain't cut out to be Lotus owners. :wink:
 
Roger said:
I think my Europa had a PO who thought fibreglass was a good conductor, to judge from some of the work I see.
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Perhaps your PO was a brilliant yet dyslexic engineer who was ahead of his time and confused fiberglass with glass fiber - aka fiberoptics? Optical fiber can be used to supply a low level of power (around one watt) to electronics situated in a difficult electrical environment. Examples of this are electronics in high-powered antenna elements and measurement devices used in high voltage transmission equipment. :smile:
 
Or... on th' third hand, the guy wuz just thick.
 
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