Hello everyone. I vowed to post a thread about fixing wiring and electrical issues.
There's a difference between "electronics" and "electrical" stuff. The first one involves semi-conductors and the second one just wires, switches, interruptors, some voltage variators, just a few stuff. But specially connectors and wires.
The thing is that electronics usually is not very worky but really complex and in the other paw electrical stuff can be really worky but not that complicated. That's why if you have a pair of good hands and some eyes with some sight in them you can fix electrical issues too. It requires almost the same amount of neurons than breathing, breeding and eating.
So, I'm posting to you how I get to lose the fear to wires and their issues. This wil be a lot of posts about the thing, I'm a bit low of minutes to spare so I'll be doing from time to time, specially for adding answers to questions you could have.
The first thing, and the very first one you should base your wiring action on, is that knowing electrical stuff will not help you at all if you don't fusion that knowledge with the WORKSHOP MANUAL of your vehicle. The wiring scheme, the correct one, for your vehicle, any vehicle, is MANDATORY to study it in order to achieve finding and solving issues.
After having that scheme, it's all about reading colors and following wires and working a damned lot spreading wires like hay when looking for that needle. The thing is that the scheme is a freaking big magnet and help the biggest lot and that's its purpose, to reach that needle. It's very frustrating and it will let you down, but after finding two or three electrical issues, you'll find that it was not that big of a matter. It's just about time and work looking into it, following some very basic electrical logic and the wiring scheme.
That very basic electrical logic is as simple as this: One wire takes energy from one point to the other, and should not lose it on its way. An interruptor cut that way. A switch changes from one way to some other. And all of that path should be clean and isolated.
That's it. You now know all the electrical theory you need to fix electrical issues. From that, all the other stuff you need will come as common sense (Do you have of that? Surely you do!)
Now, this thread is about the technical abilities to apply that knowledge and wiring schemes:
- How to find issues.
- Tools needed.
- How to make new wires.
- How to change and fix connectors, interruptors, switches, etc.
- How to choose the proper wires (they are very different!).
- How to work with fuses.
- How to substitute damaged wires or find wheretheheck that wire should go.
- How to make proper connections between wires, using tin and shrinkable tubes and other tools.
- How to use a multimeter on it (I'm not telling the very basic thing about it, that's a very talked issue. I'm going into a bit more advanced uses).
Well, this is an introduction on the thing. Please let me know what you want to know so I make a good planning for the coming posts.
Best V'ss and regards.
There's a difference between "electronics" and "electrical" stuff. The first one involves semi-conductors and the second one just wires, switches, interruptors, some voltage variators, just a few stuff. But specially connectors and wires.
The thing is that electronics usually is not very worky but really complex and in the other paw electrical stuff can be really worky but not that complicated. That's why if you have a pair of good hands and some eyes with some sight in them you can fix electrical issues too. It requires almost the same amount of neurons than breathing, breeding and eating.
So, I'm posting to you how I get to lose the fear to wires and their issues. This wil be a lot of posts about the thing, I'm a bit low of minutes to spare so I'll be doing from time to time, specially for adding answers to questions you could have.
The first thing, and the very first one you should base your wiring action on, is that knowing electrical stuff will not help you at all if you don't fusion that knowledge with the WORKSHOP MANUAL of your vehicle. The wiring scheme, the correct one, for your vehicle, any vehicle, is MANDATORY to study it in order to achieve finding and solving issues.
After having that scheme, it's all about reading colors and following wires and working a damned lot spreading wires like hay when looking for that needle. The thing is that the scheme is a freaking big magnet and help the biggest lot and that's its purpose, to reach that needle. It's very frustrating and it will let you down, but after finding two or three electrical issues, you'll find that it was not that big of a matter. It's just about time and work looking into it, following some very basic electrical logic and the wiring scheme.
That very basic electrical logic is as simple as this: One wire takes energy from one point to the other, and should not lose it on its way. An interruptor cut that way. A switch changes from one way to some other. And all of that path should be clean and isolated.
That's it. You now know all the electrical theory you need to fix electrical issues. From that, all the other stuff you need will come as common sense (Do you have of that? Surely you do!)
Now, this thread is about the technical abilities to apply that knowledge and wiring schemes:
- How to find issues.
- Tools needed.
- How to make new wires.
- How to change and fix connectors, interruptors, switches, etc.
- How to choose the proper wires (they are very different!).
- How to work with fuses.
- How to substitute damaged wires or find wheretheheck that wire should go.
- How to make proper connections between wires, using tin and shrinkable tubes and other tools.
- How to use a multimeter on it (I'm not telling the very basic thing about it, that's a very talked issue. I'm going into a bit more advanced uses).
Well, this is an introduction on the thing. Please let me know what you want to know so I make a good planning for the coming posts.
Best V'ss and regards.
