In a message dated 4/25/99 11:13:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
maineac@netquarters.net writes:
>
> Listers--
>
> My final job on the TR6 before driving it this season is to get the radio
to
> work 100% as advertised. I have a modern radio with a digital clock and "
> soft" presets (not mechanical, but electronic). To keep all of these
things
> in its memory, the radio has a yellow wire that needs to connect to a
circuit
> that as always "hot".
>
> I thought I had the perfect one with the switch for the interior
(courtesy)
> lights. There's a purple and white wire that attaches to one side of the
> switch (and the bonus is there's an extra "lug" that I should attach that
> yellow wire to) with a black (ground) wire attached to the other side. It
> seemed to me that the purple and white wire would always be hot so you
could
> turn the courtesy lights on without having to use the ign. key to
"activate"
> the circuits. However, when I hook a continuity light up nothing happens.
I'
> m curious about where my neat little theory has run into the cold light of
> physics. And also where there might be an available place to attach the
> yellow wire. I'm about an hour away from having it out on the road, but
need
> to finish the radio installation before I declare victory.
Tom
Use any purple wire. Purple wires are always hot AND they are fused.
The purple/white wire you refer to is the ground switch for the lights. When
the doors open, the purple/white wire is grounded. The purple wires feed
power to the other side of the lamp.
Dan Masters,
Alcoa, TN
'71 TR6---------3000mile/year driver, fully restored
'71 TR6---------undergoing full restoration and Ford 5.0 V8 insertion - see:
http://members.aol.com/danmas/
'74 MGBGT---3000mile/year driver, original condition - slated for a V8 soon
'68 MGBGT---organ donor for the '74
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