Re: [DML] Re: Switched DeLo Grounds

[mike.griese@xxxx]

The reason power is switched on American cars is because
there are gounds everywhere - the cars are steel bodied.
You switch power to simplify the wiring harness.

Grounds are switched on the DeLorean (and most other 
non-steel vehicles) in order to simplify and cost-reduce
the wiring harness.

--
Mike

> Courtesy lights, courtesy light timer, door lights, hood/engine
> compartment lights, fuel pump (inertia switch), parking brake
> indicator, just to name a FEW.
> 
> DeLo's American contemporaries were switching 12v side. 
> 
> Definitely wouldn't consider turn of decade Japanese import a
> "domestic car". Has been so much cross pollination since then don't
> know how to classify current manufactures. I lost interest in
> automobile industry early 1980's.
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
> 
> >--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jan van de Wouw" <delorean@xxxx> wrote:
> > --- In dmcnews, Bill Robertson wrote:
> > 
> > > Note most circuits that are switched on the hot side
> > > in domestic cars are switched on the ground in DeLo.
> > 
> > You've said this for SO many times...
> > WHICH circuits do you mean???
> > 
> > I've currently been working on installing a Digital Dashboard
> > in my Nissan 100NX, so I've been researching its electrics
> > thouroughly for the past weeks and one thing I noticed is

> > how much circuits on that car are switched grounds too.
> > 
> > Then again, I don't think you'd see a little Japanese car 
> > as "domestic". Would my previous Ford Escort count as 
> > domestic? It had a LOT of similar wiring to my Nissan;
> > I know, because I DO have wiring diagrams for that too...
> > 
> > Please explain,
> > 
> > JAN van de Wouw
> > Thinking Different... Using a Mac...
> > Living the Dream... Driving a DeLorean...
> > 
> > DMC-12 "Dagger" since Sep. 2000
> > 100NX "Saphire" since Nov. 2002
> > ------------------------------
> > BTW, for those interested in the Dash, it looks like this:
> > <http://images.cardomain.com/member_img_a/331000-331999/
> > 331578_12_full.jpg>
> 
> 
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