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Don,

I was wondering what you were activating with each switch.
thanks,
Zachariah

PS. I really to love the minimalist look, it is what I want. Also what do you think you have in the wire $ wise?

Originally Posted by oddcarout

Don,

I was wondering what you were activating with each switch.
thanks,
Zachariah

PS. I really to love the minimalist look, it is what I want. Also what do you think you have in the wire $ wise?

Zach, next time I am going to buy one of the wiring kits, like Painless or Ron Francis. I always have used marine supplies because I was in that business and got it at cost. But now that I am not I have to pay retail like everybody else, and it is super expensive. I went the other day and bought 5 feet of red and 5 feet of black number 2 battery cable at West Marine, and it cost me $ 86.00. A pack of two battery lugs were $ 7.95. Admittedly, the marine grade stuff is super high quality and very corrosion resistant, but I can't afford to buy the stuff anymore. What I have in this job is not too much because I loaded up on wire and terminal ends before I left the industry. I am getting down to the end of my supplies though.

My Son bought a Painless kit to do his T and we looked at it one night. Very impressive. Each wire is marked with where it goes all along the length, and they loom the various circuits and group them together. I bet when we wire his T it will be a cinch, and the cost is probably less than buying individual components and making up your own kit.

As for what each switch does, one is for the electric fan overide (so I can bypass the thermostatically controlled one and run it at will) , the second one is for my electric fuel pump, the third is for my headlights (with a position for off-lo beam-high beam) and the 4th is an extra for future use in case I want to add something. However, it looks like we will be putting the turn signal switch in there now.

Don