Wiring help, please?

[don simon]

This has just arrived.
2017-08-15_02-26-20 by Simon Carter, en Flickr
All ready and wired up, but I can't work out a couple of wires.
2017-08-15_02-26-37 by Simon Carter, en Flickr
And.
2017-08-15_02-25-33 by Simon Carter, en Flickr

Red is live feed from battery and black is earth, while the vacant connector is supply to whichever zombie lamp I'm connecting to. All good so far.
Yellow and blue?
This is going to be connected to the second battery in the rear of the car and is for the fridge, some lights and charging stuff through the USBs.
I guess that the blue and yellow are for ignition and used for switch lights (as there is already a constant live).
If I am running from a second battery. Do I need the blue and yellow if I don't want the switches illuminated? If they need to be connected, I guess it will be +pos direct to battery (through fuse) and -neg to earth.
Kepp it simple as I'm a total wiring muppet.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Basically, as you say, if you do not want the switches to light with your dash lights, then you can ignore the blue and yellow wire.

The light that comes on when the item is switched on, is hard wired inside the switch, so when ever you turn a switch on, that light will still come on, but you could get around this by just pulling the black wire off the relevant switch.

 

[don simon]

Basically, as you say, if you do not want the switches to light with your dash lights, then you can ignore the blue and yellow wire.

The light that comes on when the item is switched on, is hard wired inside the switch, so when ever you turn a switch on, that light will still come on, but you could get around this by just pulling the black wire off the relevant switch.

Coolio!
Thanks Clive. :clap :thumb2
We're nearly there.

 

[zippy656]

Not to keen on the red starting one end and running along.


Puts all the load through the first connections.

Personally I'd split and run a couple or even 3 into the unit.

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

You're gonna have a lot of lights fella

 

[don simon]

Not to keen on the red starting one end and running along.


Puts all the load through the first connections.

Personally I'd split and run a couple or even 3 into the unit.

I was just having a think about that in regard to fusing the system. You've given me a solution on that now. Cheers.
You can never have too many zombie lights T-Doug. :freak3:

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Not to keen on the red starting one end and running along.


Puts all the load through the first connections.

Personally I'd split and run a couple or even 3 into the unit.

I think it is really designed to switch relays, so very little current should be going along the wires. Having said that though, it would have been better if it had started at the Meter, then the power socket, and then the USB, etc. The meter is really going to be affected by the volt drop across the cables being right at the end like that.

 

[zippy656]

In my t2, even though everything was through a relay its was fused separately, so if one fuse went it didn't stop everything from working