How to read a Wiring Diagrm Tutorial

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Just got my Bentley manual and decided to try and figure out some electrical problems using the wiring diagrams. Unfortantley I have no electrical experice and had touble understading them. I found this old Ford tutoiral on line which explained a lot of the basics. It is sort of slow and a little corny but it was a great help in getting started.

Click on "Course 13001, Volume 68 S7" - How to Read Wiring Diagrams at the bottom of the page.


http://hammar.dyndns.org/~djhamma/wiring.htm

[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

Be aware that the Porsche wiring diagrams are of a format that I, at least, had never seen before. It may well be a format common in Germany or perhaps all of Metricland, but it baffled me at first, since I was accustomed to the continuous-flow (or whatever an EE would call it) diagrams that I'd always read. Having said that, the Porsche/German format makes perfect sense and is perfectly easy to trace once you figure out the method in their madness.

Stephan

[azasadny]

I'm color-blind so these diagrams just confuse the heck out of me.

[Willem Fick]

Mike,

The Bentley diagrams are very difficult to read, due to them being in black and white. Colour versions are available somewhere on the Pelican Parts site, and I would suggest you rather use those - much easier to follow!

Cheers!

Willem Fick