power windows/sunroof wires

[Trevor Irwin]

Perhaps I should clarify the second paragraph from my previous message
(below). There are five wires in each switch. In the passenger door there
are two wires going to the motor, two wires which are grounded through
the switch in the driver's door, and the red/blue power
supply wire. When you operate the switch in the driver's door, the power
goes through the aforementioned ground wires. So when you operate the
driver's switch, the power is coming from there, but when you operate the
switch in the passenger's door it is the ground connection that goes
through the driver's switch, not the power.

Now a defective driver's side switch could explain why I did not read a
voltage from the red/blue wire in the passenger door if I had been using
the ground wires as my ground source. However, there are lots of other
ground sources available to use and I used those, not the wires in the
connector. So you see, it is not the switch.

Trevor


On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Trevor Irwin wrote:

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|On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Huw Powell wrote:
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||I still think you haven't checked that switch.
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|Huw, I can see why you might think that. Probably I should have told you
|that both doors are out and that I have already tried bypassing the
|switches altogether by using jumper wires on the connectors. So the
|switches are not the problem.
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|Anyway, the passenger door doesn't get its power through the driver side
|switch. It's only the two ground wires that go through the driver side
|switch. The power supply wires in both sides connect, along with the power
|supply wires for the other windows, the sunroof, and the power supply wire
|coming out of the window control unit, at the same place; but I don't know
|where that is in the car.
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|Trevor
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