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Old 04-06-2011, 10:31 AM   #5
James McClure
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Re: Weird light question???

As a general rule of thumb, garnered from years of expirence, the weirder an electrical problem is and the more systems it affects at the most weird times the more the issue will be a ground failure someplace. The reason is simple. B+ goes to one thing at a time in seperate circuts. Grounds are ganged to serve a group of loads. EG, at the tail lights there are 3 B+ circuts but only 1 ground. Thats the same at all 4 corners. IP clusters are the worst especially with guages and courtesy lighs are wired backwards from everything else with power going to the lamp first and ground supplied later. Jim
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