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Offline CanIBeFrank

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« on: March 22, 2006, 07:48:42 »
I'm on the final leg (hopefully) of a rebuild, Series III 88".

When I striped I labeled all the wiring from behind the vast dash, on refit its become aparent that the lighting, heater, inspection light socket etc are all live whithout the ignition being on, I hadn't noticed before as I only drove from where I purchased before the strip.

There's no drain, I just find it a little odd, is this normal?
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2006, 11:04:12 »
Lighting and inspection socket yes normally live, but the heater normally on ignition.

If you are worried you can always fit a battery isolator switch that will kill everything
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2006, 11:55:36 »
same here my heater is operational regardless of ignition.. real pain when you get out and think " whats that noise" before you realise its the heater fan
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2006, 16:19:09 »
Easy enough to re-wire though, just need to move a wire off one connection in the fuse box to one next to it, on the steering column
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2006, 21:19:05 »
hobbit when you get a min could you expand a little  :shock:
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2006, 21:58:42 »
I had a similar problem with a live. I ended up wiring an on/off switch through the fusebox. I found that removing either fuse 1 or fuse 4 killed the live so just wired the switch between 1 and 4. Hope that helps :wink:
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2006, 13:00:30 »
Quote from: "Andy the Landy"
I had a similar problem with a live. I ended up wiring an on/off switch through the fusebox. I found that removing either fuse 1 or fuse 4 killed the live so just wired the switch between 1 and 4. Hope that helps :wink:


you got it! :wink:
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« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2006, 14:42:34 »
Sorry, could you explain " ended up wiring an on/off switch through the fusebox" do you mean an actual switch?

Bit slow on the up take.
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« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2006, 16:29:08 »
Your feed to the switch will be more than likely running from the fusebox, connected to a spade that is fed from the ignition switch (in the on position), some of the fuse connections are fed from a permament feed, you need to find out which connection on the back of the fuse box feeds with a permanent live and connect to that, you may have to change the fuse size though, for the extra load
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Kev

'91 stretch Discovery 200 Tdi
Hybrid for running round (got to go now)
Srs 3 Lightweight petrol (got to go)
Srs 3 Lightweight petrol, runabout

Not every problem can be solved with duct tape, and it's exactly for those situations we have WD 40
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