[T3] Wire Question

[Dave Hall]

Headlight wiring grounds are brown too on VWs, as are other component
grounds.  The thin wire to the door-operated light switches are brown/white.

There is a logic to it - flasher wiring has black/green/white from flasher
unit then after the indicator switch one (right) is black/green and the
other (left) is black/white.  Headlight main beam is white, dipped is
yellow.  Same sort of pattern with sidelights (grey and grey/white),
brakelights (red/black)etc. (well, I may have remembered the odd one wrong,
but you get the idea).

Dave
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Daniel K.
Du Vall
Sent: 02 February 2013 03:10
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Wire Question

Could the Black be like the AC wiring where Black is the hot wire and white
is common?
Now the brown wire as a ground is interesting unless its to distinguish that
it's a isolated ground just for a certain device like the casing of the
Generator where it runs all the way to the regulator mounting.

Daniel Du Vall
http://1peter4-10.org
http://volkswageninsanity.us


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Dave Hall
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 6:53 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Wire Question

The brown catches people out in the UK too - it's used for the live mains
wire! 

When I bought my Variant, the flashers didn't work - someone had blown up
the hazard flasher switch by connecting the brown wire to the + side of the
flasher bulb!


Dave
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Dennis
Stiefel
Sent: 01 February 2013 02:22
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Wire Question




Be careful with black wires in your VW, it's used for +12V on VWs.  I've
never understood why.

Dave
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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I can't either Dave.  In my line of work who works on a lot of different
makes of vehicles.  I have to remind myself of this when I work on my first
love old Volkswagens or you will let out some magic smoke.  Once you let
that magic smoke out on some stuff you can't put it back in. 

Dennis Stiefel   

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