Grounds can be common so long as you aren't electrically overloading the
ground wire - which, adding the load of a windex light to it, is
unlikely. I'd say go for it. My mast lights come out of the mast to a
terminal strip, there are two ground wires from it back to the ground
buss bar, 4 lights on the mast.
Graham Collins
Secret Plans
C&C 35-III #11
On 2016-05-23 9:03 PM, Andrew Means via CnC-List wrote:
Hey listers -
Forgive the elementary wiring question: I’m running a (single) wire
from the running lights circuit on my switch panel to the base of my
mast to wire up a windex light. Can I wire the negative return from
the light to a negative/ground of one of the other circuits? Or does
each circuit need its own negative/ground?
I ask because I wasn’t able to find the running lights circuit (I
think the wires are glassed in between the headliner and the deck,
actually) and there is an unused wire running from the port hanging
locker to the starboard settee (where the rest of the mast wires are
staged). Running duplex along that route would be exceedingly
difficult (it’s crazy tight with other wires already) and I’d like to
avoid it if I can.
--
Andrew Means
S.V. Safari - 1977 C&C 34 Mk I
Seattle, WA
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