Living In My Car

5 Comments

1. Angie
   Posted January 28, 2010 at 8:29 am | Permalink

   Oh my! I took a look at that link and it looks like some kind of scary maze with land mines placed throughout it! I would be totally lost in this course right about now. You’ll be able to pull through it, you’re a smart cookie. If anything get those young men in your class to explain it to you in more detail. How can they resist helping a lady out? lol

   Check out this schematic:

   http://dummcomics.com/index?sid=521

   Don’t let your homework become too frustrating!

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   Jennifer….put the computer down and go to bed!

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   Smile! It’s Thursday! Another week completed and a day closer to RV living!

2. A.S.
   Posted January 28, 2010 at 8:58 am | Permalink

   Try to see this schematic as just a road map for when something goes wrong.

   If there is an electrical issue of some kind, all you have to do is locate the thing that isn’t working on the map and then trace it back to where it connects to its power source. That route will then be your troubleshooting road trip.

   Does that help?

3. Jack in NorCal
   Posted January 28, 2010 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

   Yes, electrics is hard. It is worse thing for me to deal with when working on a car. For a long time I thought electricity was smoke. Every once in awhile a wire would spring a leak and smoke would come pouring out from behind the dashboard or wherever.

4. Anniesunflower
   Posted January 28, 2010 at 11:09 pm | Permalink

   Where there is smoke doesn’t always mean there is a problem! You will get thru it. It is hard learning new things. Even if you learn one thing it will be better than what you knew before. Be kind to yourself.

5. Jonathan
   Posted January 29, 2010 at 9:05 am | Permalink

   That’s actually a pretty simple schematic… A couple relays, a couple switches, the solenoids (for an air suspension leveling system, perhaps?), fuses, and connections to other systems.

   Understanding schematics does not go hand in hand in hand with understand 12-volt electrical systems. You can fix or wire up new components all day long without looking at a schematic. Or, you can totally be able to read a schematic and still have no clue which wire to look for when trying to do something. Don’t let schematics bug you, they’re not really that important for vehicle electrics.

   The easiest way for most people to wrap their heads around basic electrical systems is to remember that electricity is just trying to “flow” from one point to another. If there’s something in it’s way, one of three things will happen… It will stop (like when a switch is “off”), it will find another way to get where it’s trying to go (like jump starting a vehicle, you’re sending electricity from one car battery to another), or it will “do something”. It’s generally the “do something” that we’re interested in when everything is working.

   A lightbulb is simply a tiny piece of wire in a glass case that’s in the way of the electricity. In order for the power to go through the lightbulb, it’s got to make it light up.

   A schematic is just a map of where the electricity can go and what bits are in the way.

   Hang in there… the light will come on for you, I’m sure.