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« on: 11/26/06 10:20 PM »

I am working on the finishing touches to my Lux Amp / TNR installation into my T360, and I have basically one lingering "open issue" from it all.  Its concerning the "Drain Wire", and its origination / termination.  Specifically, I understand that the "Drain Wire" is merely a shielding wire for the functional wiring that it is spiral-wrapped around.  However, for my lux-amp installation, I had to add Circuits 2011 and 2012 (see pic below), both "Drain Wires".  I connected them to their appropriate pinouts on the Class-II Amp, and spiral-wrapped them around their appropriate wires as shown in the schematic. BUT, I only could do the spiral-wrap a few feet before I ran into an issue of having to take out the rear seats and a bunch of other junk underneath the seats to continue the wrapping....of which I did not have time to even consider taking out the seats this weekend. So....

This leads me to my question(s) -

Where do the Drain Wires TERMINATE?  Obviously from the schematic I see that they originate at the pinouts on the Class-II Amp.... But where do they go?  By my untrained eye on the schematic, it looks like they are an open-loop.  Yes? No?  Or do they follow (wrap) their appropriate wires to the next connector / junction, and terminate somewhere on that (unknown) connector?  In my case, that would mean the Right and Left Front Speakers, at those two connectors....?  (If that is the case, why doesn't the schematic show that, instead of showing it arbitrarily terminating with the "halo" around the two speaker wires?)  Granted, my knowledge of reading electrical schematics SUCKS....but am I to interpret that diagram to mean that the Drain Wires follow those two Speaker sets of wires from the Class-II Amp to the Speaker connectors?

Any help is greatly appreciated, as is always the case.   Right now I have the Drain Wires ending (open-loop) about 3' from the Class-II Amp, which was the furthest I could wrap each Drain Wire without having to take out the rear seats....

Also reference the full schematic, posted here by sperry:
http://www.chevyavalanchefanclub.com/cafcna/index.php/topic,68566.msg1054226.html#msg1054226



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