Sure, unfortunately it does seem to be computer issue or at minimum a ground 
issue somewhere in the system. The switch checks out under test as does the 
harness conductivity in the door. I suspect an issue upstream in the drivers 
door since all signal wiring goes through there. Could be switch contacts 
there, that is my next stop.

Maddening, I'm half way to cutting a hole and installing a hand crank.

Andy


On Jan 25, 2015, at 7:20 PM, Erik Lane 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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-
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