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Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: CanIBeFrank on March 22, 2006, 07:48:42

Title: Electrics, through ignition or not
Post by: CanIBeFrank 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?

Title: Electrics, through ignition or not
Post by: hobbit 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

Title: Electrics, through ignition or not
Post by: bezzabsa 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

Title: Electrics, through ignition or not
Post by: hobbit 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

Title: Electrics, through ignition or not
Post by: CanIBeFrank on March 22, 2006, 21:19:05

hobbit when you get a min could you expand a little  :shock:

Title: Electrics, through ignition or not
Post by: Andy the Landy 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:

Title: Electrics, through ignition or not
Post by: hobbit 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:

Title: Electrics, through ignition or not
Post by: CanIBeFrank 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.

Title: Electrics, through ignition or not
Post by: hobbit 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