Sunday, July 25, 2010

Beginning Electrical Layout

Well, it's still incredibly hot around here so I try to work a little early in the morning at late in the evening.  While I wait for some help completing a couple of loose ends, I figured I would go ahead and start the initial layout of the electrical systems.  Man, there are a LOT of wires!  I've been told that if you take it step by step it's fairly straight forward.  Jacob and I started by securing the fuse box inside the top of the drivers side footbox.  After that, we roughly routed the various wiring runs in the appropriate directions.  I pretty quickly discovered that the hole in the footbox where I had previously run the brake reservoir hoses was really intended for the wiring bundle headed to the front of the car.  Oops.  Oh well,  a couple of hours later (6 actually) and I had rerouted the hoses out of the side of the box.  In addition to the rough layout of the wiring, I have also begun mounting the various electrical components to the frame.  The first piece to be mounted was the starting solenoid.  The solenoid is the part that keeps blowing out on my golf cart and setting it on fire, so i was keenly interested in getting it mounted and grounded correctly.





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