Electric gremlins revisited

[ternil@union.edu (Lyman M. Terni)]

I meant on the stereo and connect the two wires both to the batt wire, 
leaving the acc. wire on the car unused.

LT

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 06:57 PM, Andrew Basterfield wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:25:39 -0500
> "Lyman M. Terni" <ternil@union.edu> wrote:
>
>> When I tried to wire the acc. wire in my stereo, the stereo flat out
>> wouldn't work. Try twisting the acc and batt wires together and
>> running them that way. Your stereo will run all the time, you always
>> have to turn it off manually, But I haven't had a problem with the
>> batt. drain ever...
>
> I really can't condone that as an electrical engineer.
>
> You are basically bypassing your ignition switch. Any other components
> fed from the acc feed will continue being live after you switch off the
> ignition. Remember electricity can flow both ways along a piece of 
> wire.
>
> The wiring will probably not be up to taking much current, and you rely
> on good fusing to protect your car from fire.
>
> PS my rocco has a factory wiring gremlin - if you flash the headlights
> with the engine off and the heater fan switched on the fan spins up. I
> have seen this mentioned in other places on the 'net. This is due to a
> similar gremlin VW missed. Don't do this for a long time as the
> headlight wiring is not designed to supply the fan also.
>
> --Andrew
>