r/Wiring

I swapped out dimmers and dumb switches for Inovelli switches and now I'm struggling to get all the wires in the box. i try to bend the wires in, but it's hard as it's a huge mess of wires. Any tips or advice?

John

I'm not a wiring expert, but good lord that does not look right. I have a 2005 highlander here, and what appears to be a half finished attempt at installing an auto starter. Since I bought the car I've had battery issues, I took it to a mechanic and they thought the battery was good, and the alternator was good, but he swapped it with a new one to try to solve the issue, and they were stumped.

There is this receiver for an aftermarket auto starter next to the rear view mirror, I thought maybe that could be causing something, so I follow the wire through to this point, and find this parasitic infection of a wiring job we have here, and it's just the gift that keeps giving. Note, I didn't get an auto starter key fob with this, as it wasn't actually fully installed properly, and it looks like they gave up at some point, and I found an extra key for the car in that expresskit box, anyway.

Does anyone know if I can just buy a new set of wires for this? If so, where should I look and what is the name of this section of wiring so I can find more help?

Trying to figure out a career path and working towards being a certified electrician seems the best bet. Any advice or pointers would be appreciated. I currently work at a solar company but it doesn’t pay the best and being on the roof is taking a toll. I’ve been making 19 an hour for over 2 years now and it’s not really sustainable at all.

2010 Silverado 1500 converted into a flatbed. Bought these lights- https://a.co/d/0cifaAwV

There's 5 wires on the back of the light. There are 4 in my wiring harness for the taillights. (See picture)

How do I make this work ?

If not, reccomended lights ?

Kind of embarrassed considering I work restoring old cars but I don't do the wiring. I can obviously figure out what the 4 wires in my harness do but I just dont know how to get these things to work. Dont want to mess up the wires and not be able to return them.

I can’t tell, need some assistance tbh.

Car is a 2004 Mk5 Ford Transit

Hi, Im trying to instal a ceiling fan and I am stumped by the light wiring. The fan it self is simple enough; Black (live), White (neutral), Yellow (ground). When it comes to the light side Ive got no clue what is what.

When it comes to things like this I would rather ask a real person with knowledge about these things. Dont want to set my house on fire because AI had a stupid hallucination or something.

How do I go forward with this?

What’s wrong here - struggling to work out why one light works and not the other.
Electrician couldn’t work it out but I’ve realised the lights are on different circuits so what do I need to change?
Many thanks

My grandfather had his neighbor build this in the early 80s. It used to control all the driveway lights via a laser built into his drigeway columns. It also rang a bell the neighbor hand built in the hallway. It ran up until about 5 or 6 years ago, a man hit of of the columns and another person hit the pole at the end. Finally the buzzer went out.

I have a rough diagram showing the idea. The grey box at the bottom is a relay, pin 30 goes to the positive on the battery(RED), 85 to ground (BLACK), 87 to positive on the fuel pump(RED), 86 is a trigger wire(PURPLE). The main reason I'm even trying to bypass the resistor is because when I ohm tested the resistor it was reading 1.0-0.5 as well as never read a constant number, just jumped around. For more info, I'm running a stock fuel pump but I do have a return system. Since I have a stock fuel pump will it be able to handle a constant 12v and will the stock wire gauge be able to handle as well? What wire gauge should I run? I'm also curious how to setup the trigger wire, I was thinking I can tap a fuse that'll turn on when the key is in accessory and stay on when the engine is on. Maybe I can use the wire that would have used to go to the resistor and use that as the trigger. I'm not really familiar with wiring stuff but in my little mind it should work since it gets sent power exactly how I need it to since it is used to control the fuel pump. (Last side shows the idea). The resistor isn't expensive but I would like to get rid of parts that seem to fail consistently(as they seem to sort of do) Used this video to give me an idea->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8QrroHo_v4 2004 Lexus Is300 I6 3.0

So I’m replacing light switches and the 3 way switch that was in this box is confusing. It only had 2 wires instead of what I was expecting (common, 2 travelers) but somehow still functioned fine which I still don’t know how. Just to see what happened I wired my new switch exactly how it was and the light will switch on or off with every other switch flip. Can someone help me identify what is going on in this box and which is the common and 2 travelers?

Would you say heat shrink is required on every soldered pin? According to some guide it is, but I'd say there will never be enough room for the wires to move such that they could touch each other

Hi, I am working on an Arduino project (as a software developer without prior experience in hardware/electricity).

One of my colleague helped me to wire these materials up (1 ESP32 + 1 buck converter + 1 relay + 1 electronic lock + 1 power supply (12V)) - When I looked at his wiring, I hadn’t any ideas lol.

I want to add another logic for 1 relay, 1 buck converter, and 1 electronic lock into the same ESP32 and the same power supply but not sure if that is feasible. And I do not really know how to understand and wire those things.

I feel quite lost and do not know where I should start off with.

😭😭😭 Any of your helps would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you so much!

I am making a product but want to incorporate this type of connection. I want to research it but am having a tough time finding what it’s called.