Mark, Most 1600 looms have a 3 pin plug that's for the clock in the GL and it's not usually on wiring diagrams. (The Japanese loom for clock eg Wagon is different as it uses 2 plugs, 1 for battery power and earth and another for it's lighting (green/black and another black wire from memory as it's lighting is external). The GL clock plug has battery (red/blue), light (green/white?) and earth (black) wires and is very handy for lighting additional gauges. What I usually do for additional lighting is cut the plug off and run these wires into a Clipsal block connector and then off the other side of the Clipsal block connector to gauges or whatever. Another way is to solder in a male connector onto the light circuit on the PCB and then run a wire to a block connector. Some Datsun dashes eg 180B are done like this ex-factory but I've never seen a 1600 dash with an auxiliary lighting connector.
regards Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Monday, 8 July 2002 12:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wiring in gauges I'd been eyeing off a nice white-face 3 3/4" Autometer tacho the last few visits to the auto shop and convinced myself I really did need to know what revs were going on so brought it home on Sat. Did some dicky wiring just to test it out - now that I've pulled the dash out I see I'd better fix the spaghetti wiring for instrument lights for the other after market guages (temp, oil, and vac/boost gauges). I haven't removed the cluster yet, but I imagine an easy fix for lighting would be to just solder a wire onto a PCB trace leading to a factory dash light? I have one wire for switched source of power - what's the neatest connector/junction to use to take this to four difference points - under the electrical tape i imagine they're just bare wires wound together and all taped up ATM so this is not ideal. mark. --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
