Basic Wiring - Ground, Battery Plus, Ignition, Accessory Power - 427 Cobra

Thanks Pete from Australia. Wishing you good health for ‘22 😊

Good Work

Ok so have an old 2006 Toyota Camry just need a positive trigger wire from fuse box to boot (using double adapter fuse holder) I’m guessing fuse is under dash is where I can install? It’s for dc to dc charger, the thing is I have fuse called “ECU-IG” I’m guessing that’s it?

Going to watch this later. Just came to drop a Like. Happy New Year!

Fantastic sir

Thanku sir, i am from india and i learn so much from you, you are my teacher

I really appreciate your videos. It’s helped me immensely. You also are a great instructor!

My girlfriend inherited a 1966 ERA Cobra 427 Replica her dad built it & the battery is in the engine compartment and can not figure out how to remove it to replace it... Any advise would be helpful... Thank you

This is very interesting. I'm measuring the resistance between the wires at to the top of the fuse box and chassis ground. Should the resistance always be low, like ground to ground resistance, or does it depend on the components in each circuit? And should all of those connections have continuity with ground?

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Hello, Great video . i wanted to ask you , in this setup, does the positive wire from the battery to the ignition switch go through or the fuse box or it bypasses it?
also , are the always on accessories like the horn ,lights powered by the positive wire from the battery or does it split in the fuse box to be fused?
i have a trouble understanding how did you route and differentiate between always on accessories and the others because they all seem to come from the same fuse box. thanks a lot!

This video explains it all! Thank you.

Hey I was just wondering because I couldn’t quite understand it in the video, but if I wire something to the accessory power will it still have power when the car is running and driving?
Thanks Liam

My brakes lights and wipers only work when the ignition is on accessory! It a 1995 GMC Please help

Very helpful info, excellent explanations and video, thank you!

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Great explanation! Thanks for talking to a novice audience also and not in such technical language.

Great video!

I plan to use a Bus Bar for clean ignition power and ground. My question is, is it okay to splice into Ignition Power and then have item (Fuel pumps for two tanks) routed into PDM? I'm installing a Holley Sniper 2 EFI with PDM and Hyperspark into a ‘74 Chevy K10.

Ign Power~Bus Bar~PDM using 14awg…do you think that will be good enough?

I'm just nervous to cut and splice that wire.

How can I supply power for the engine to work with a separate battery?

Awesome

Great video. My kit car is being wired a bit differently. I'm using a donor car keeping all that wiring for the chassis. Did a motor swap and using that harness and fuse block for that engine. So two fuse boxes which I think will be okay but your explanation helped. As I need to get the engine harness power ACC and ignition power. Thanks

Thanks for the info. Nice and clear

What happens when you turn the truck off? I got a truck that won’t turn off with the key out

Thx for sharing

Hello Pete, Question I have an old 75 scout 11 and the old style glass fuse panel is pretty much shot, I'd like to install a new fuse panel and remove the old one. I have the factory service manual and have the wiring schematic. Essentially there is a battery feed connector a packard 3 over 3 style that has a 10 ga wire that runs and powers one leg of the fuse panel. there is a 12 ga pink wire that runs to the Ignition B terminal which is always hot, and like you explain the ign switch is where the constant and switched items feed from. so my question is is the entire fuse panel always hot? mean you have your fuses protecting the hazzards the lights the headlights ect, but it doesn't seem to me there are any switched items at the fuse panel, so if i run that 10ga from the battery feed to my new panel do I just connect it to the hot lug feed at the bottom and the whole panel is hot? I'm sure you get my question. thanks in advance you're the best on the tube at describing these things and a great instructor.

Thank you Pete. I was looking for a video like this for a day now that explains these details like you did. Thank you for the clear explanation.

Hello Pete. Question. when u turns the key to start the engine, the red wire from Batt touch the Ppl wire from neutral safety switch to turns he engine on, How this circuit works?

Hello! What is awg of wire are u using from ign key to power legs and ground leg (how rick are those wires)?

so you are running a wire (ACC terminal) from ignition switch to connector leg and the wire to power the primary ignition connector leg come from Batt terminal on the ignition switch or it comes directly from batt?

Very helpful thank you !

i really appreciate ur help to understand how to wire acc leg connector and power leg connectors.I just trying to connect ignition switch on my 1952 chevy truck so another question about ign sw is, is possible to run wire from BATT to power leg and same wire to IGN SW on BATT terminal or have to run a wire to power leg terminal and another to IGN sw on BATT terminal. Than a wire from starter solenoid to IGN SW on ST terminal and another wire from NEUTRAL SAFETY SWITCH to IGN sw on S terminal? this is confuse because there some ign switch with 5 terminals (batt, starter, ignition 1. ignition 2 and acc) and the one in your configuration is 4 terminals. nay ways thankyou to share your knowledge with others,

else i want to install a a cube relay on my ignition so do you know what wire i need to run to the relay?

Do you have a video of ground switched set ups?

excellent video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pete you did an excellent job with this video. I’d love to see the feed coming from those bus bars and how you determined how much you could or would put on each.

am installing keyless key future in my 53 chevy truck so the manual instruction say to connect some wires to starter 1, starter 2, accessory 1, accesory 2, ign 1 and ign 2 so can you help me to know what terminals are in the ignition switch?

Best explanation video

Man this was so helpful. Thank you

Very informative but you took a simple process and It explanation lost me in 2 minutes. Way too much info for it to be a simple wiring task. Could have summed it up in less than 3-5 mins. But it was very informative and you obviously know what you are doing!

its nice to see your teaching your toddler to weld

Thank you for sharing this

Greetings, amazing job you're doing here, keep up the good work! I have a question, does your (12v) feed (BATT) to your ignition switch go thru your 30 AMP fuse or is it ok if we get a separated live wire coming from the battery?

Question I have a 1993 mustang LX 2.3L. Having a short issue. No battery power at all to Fuze box. No lights and no start. This vehicle is standard. These are some of the things I've checked. Starter solenoid, ignition switch,Battery, and all wiring under hood and under dash. I changed the starter because it got fried. Though that could of been the problem. But when I hooked it all back up. It started smoking. So I disconnected the small lead wire that goes to the starter. Still no luck car is completely dead.

Pete the ignition bus bar, where did you splice in to run that?

Great info…. Thanks

No power is going to the fuse box specifically the DIS fuse 98 Cadillac DeVille

Watching this video explained the interaction of the switch and the outputs in different positions. The exact info I needed. I couldn't find any info about the interaction of the outputs until I found this video. Now I know that the Accessory brown wiring is active in the Ignition switch Run position and off during the Start position. Exactly the info I needed to know to wire the Vintage Air IV Violet wire to a switched source. Turns OFF the compressor in START position and ON during the RUN position. Thanks Pete!

If your ecu not hooked up will it not get power

i have a question my 2012 acura tl battery fuse keeps blowing every time i try to reconnect the battery