Author Topic: Electrical problems now! yeah!, it's fixed (Read 2659 times)

'78 LadyBird · « **on:** January 16, 2010, 03:53:31 PM »

What next?

Frank installed the new/used lighter, and redid the headliner, and now everything is shorting out in the interior. No curdosity (sp?) light, no dome light!
Frank is good at electrical and this really has him stumped!

Is there any tool out there to pin point the electrical short?

kjkjkcjkcj · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2010, 03:56:05 PM »

The only thing i can think of is doing things like killing the power to one thing at a time and seeing if it is the problem. process of elimination.

'78 LadyBird · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2010, 03:57:57 PM »

Quote from: kjkjkcjkcj on January 16, 2010, 03:56:05 PM

The only thing i can think of is doing things like killing the power to one thing at a time and seeing if it is the problem. process of elimination.

Oh, I am sure he has done that already. He has been working on this for 4 hours now! Poor guy!

I think I am going to sell this one and buy a different one.

ta78w72 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2010, 04:19:24 PM »

He could have either wired the cigarette lighter backwards or grounded the courtesy light wire.

'78 LadyBird · « **Reply #4 on:** January 16, 2010, 05:49:56 PM »

It's fixed. The socket for the cigarette lighter was bad.
Thank goodness!!

Rick · « **Reply #5 on:** January 18, 2010, 09:01:16 PM »

Quote from: CYA on January 16, 2010, 05:49:56 PM

The socket for the cigarette lighter was bad.

That happens more often than you'd think.

Kevin · « **Reply #6 on:** February 02, 2010, 07:57:15 PM »

I need to get a cig lighter for mine, but it's not worth the money right now to get one.

Rick · « **Reply #7 on:** February 02, 2010, 08:22:31 PM »

Interesting tidbit: The Marine Corps is now deploying their new M-ATV, which is an off-road version of the new MRAP series of vehicles. The builder generously equipped it with lots of power ports/cigarette lighter plugs so personnel can use their iPods/MP3 players, etc. They figured that if they did NOT provide that kind of power access, the troops would just hack into the vehicle's wiring harnesses anyway. Car & Driver magazine has a report on it in the March 2010 issue.

Gunner · « **Reply #8 on:** February 02, 2010, 11:48:50 PM »

Quote from: Rick on February 02, 2010, 08:22:31 PM

They figured that if they did NOT provide that kind of power access, the troops would just hack into the vehicle's wiring harnesses anyway.

I know Marines better than most. They WOULD have hacked into the vehicles wiring harness

Gunner

eroc022 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 03, 2010, 12:14:54 AM »

Quote from: Gunner on February 02, 2010, 11:48:50 PM

Quote from: Rick on February 02, 2010, 08:22:31 PM
They figured that if they did NOT provide that kind of power access, the troops would just hack into the vehicle's wiring harnesses anyway.

I know Marines better than most. They WOULD have hacked into the vehicles wiring harness

Gunner

hell ill tell you now the air force does it......to hook up a surround sound whilst driving....beats the hell out of any factory radio in any vehicle ive ever ridden in...... in our M915 we have very little room as it is, but we manage to squeeze in a sound sys. dvd player, laptop, and a cooler for the refreshments......

jphillips3333 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 03, 2010, 05:44:52 PM »

Stick your nail file into the socket ....

Quote from: CYA on January 16, 2010, 03:53:31 PM

Is there any tool out there to pin point the electrical short?