I have a draw what to do??

[optimus234 at hotmail.com (Kevin S)]

Thanks to everyone for all the help. I will take all this new knowledge and 
takle the wiring asap.

Thanks again I really appreciate it.

Kevin


>From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
>Reply-To: <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
>To: " Kevin S " <optimus234@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: I have a draw what to do??
>Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:17:39 -0500
>
>On 8:52 pm 02/01/07 "Kevin S" <optimus234@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Im no good at wiring. I have a bad current flow the battery goes dead
> > over night. I know I have some loose wires because the wiring
> > harnesses are from different scirocco's put together. Everything
> > works that I want to work in the car. I have some loose wires not
> > sure what they are for.
> >
> > I was hoping I could take out these wires and that it would get ride
> > of the current flow?
> > What is the best way of going about this?
> >
> > Should I go after all my ground wires and the ones that are useless
> > just get rid of?? Would they be creating the draw??
> >
> > Again I don't really understand wiring, I guess my mind just has a
> > hard time understanding it.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
>Typical path is battery positive to a coloured wire with a female
>connector, to the device, to the chassis/ground/battery negative. They pass
>through the main fuse panel at some point, usually before going to the
>device.
>
>(Just try for a moment to visualize that, and you'll understand a lot of
>the wiring on your car, it's just a path that goes from one end of the
>battery to the other, with a bunch of other stuff in the way; fuses and
>relays to protect stuff, switches for convenience, and of course the thing
>you want to work, the "load", like a radio or wiper motor. That sort of
>shit.)
>
>If there's demand for too much current, it will melt the fuse, the fuse
>will save the device by melting away and preventing current flow to the
>device. Electrons will find their way back to the battery if the main
>ground cable from the negative to the chassis is in good shape, or that's
>the way I look at it. I look at the chassis as a big river of electrons
>flowing back to the battery.
>Stock ground wires are usually brown, and there are a few "test connectors"
>in many VeeDubs that do nothing, they're just there for the guys at the
>dealership to hook up for diagnostics. So, if it goes "to" the device, it's
>likely a colourful wire with a female cannector, in which case, it's not
>doing squat if it's not hooked up! (as long as it's not got metal hitting
>the chassis) And if it's a ground wire, it just leads back to the chassis,
>which is like a big river of electrons going back to the battery negative,
>or that's the way the wiring diagrams read. Really, the electrons come from
>the negative terminal since they have a negative charge, but who cares,
>they make the circuit one way or another. I've always found radios and head
>units to be the source of my battery discharging grief, try pulling the
>fuses one at a time to see which one kills the offending circuit.
>Like it or not, you will have to trouble shoot wiring issues on these cars,
>so may as well embrace the challenge!  If I can do it, you can too!
>GL finding the draw, it'll be a big pain in the ass, but what the heck eh?
>Cathy
>

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