At least in older cars, a problem like that wouldn't be shorts in the wiring - it would usually be corrosion/wear on the contact points inside the window switch. I don't know if that still holds for a car that new - do they computer control everything? But it's the very first place I would ever look.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Dawes, Andrew M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I was just chasing down shorts in my van door wiring (window rolls down > but not up?!). You could cut out part of an automotive wiring harness at a > junkyard and probably get at least 40 colors :-) > > My van is 2010 (just out of warranty, yay) so I’m sure anything new-ish > with power doors/windows/mirrors etc, is going to be loaded with wires. > > -Andy > > On Jan 25, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Ward Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > > My mind flashes back to my youth. > > I remember my father driving my older brother up to Chicago to pick up > supplies at Allied Electronics, the premiere industrial sales outfit at the > time. I tagged along. What I most remember is how unusually long it took to > fill the order because my brother had tacked on one foot of 54-conductor > cable. Strange that I remember the exact number of conductors. It was a > large part of the conversation on the hour long drive back home. > > I notice ebay has some of this very cable available. 500 feet, ten dollars > a foot. > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/500ft-Belden-8773-CABLE-27-Pairs-54-conductor-22AWG-POLYPROPYLENE-AUDIO-computer-/131136514919 > > > On Jan 25, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Mykle Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > My midi foot pedal project has morphed a bit, and now I'm trying > to hook up all the front panel controls of my old dead Marantz amplifier > to a Teensy++, to turn it into a general-purpose MIDI control surface > including a footswitch jack. It may be the largest Teensy enclosure > ever built! > > I've been holding off on the wiring stuff because I thought it'd be nice > to use color-coded wiring for all the connections. But I've been > stumped as to where I can find, say, 40 different wire colorations > in a length of 2 feet or so. I figured I could just chop > off a length of some old telco trunk or parallel data cable, but I > haven't been able to scrounge one yet. > > What do you all do for color-coded wiring in complex builds? I can > usually scavenge up to ten solid colors out of whatever old dead bits of > electronics are lying around, but for more colors than that I need > the multi-color coded stuff (red with white stripe, etc) and I don't > have a good source for that. (I did get the 8 color/patterns that > come in Cat5, plus the solid colors I have … still not quite enough.) > > -m- > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber > > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber > > > -- > Andrew M.C. Dawes > Associate Professor of Physics > Pacific University > amcdawes.com > > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber >
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