{"id":20289,"date":"2020-11-01T05:35:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T10:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/?p=20289"},"modified":"2020-11-01T05:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T10:42:15","slug":"lucas-wiring-in-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/?p=20289","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Wiring in Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas used colours in their wiring to tell us a story. Plain solid colours like red, white, brown, black, purple, green and blue tell you which circuit they belong to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black (B)<\/strong> is ground<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brown (N)<\/strong> is hot, but not fused.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purple (P)<\/strong> is always hot, but is fused.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White (W)<\/strong> is hot when the ignition is on, but not fused.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green (G)<\/strong> is hot with the ignition on, but is fused.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue (U)<\/strong> is the Headlight main feed, not fused.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Red (R)<\/strong> Parking \/tail lights, not fused.<\/p>\n<p>These colours sometimes have a second colour running through them, known as a tracer:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue\/white<\/strong> - blue belongs to the headlight circuit, the tracer is for the high beam part of the circuit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue\/red<\/strong> - is for the headlights, but the tracer is to say it is for the low beams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Red\/white <\/strong>-  is for the parking\/tail lights. The white tracer says it is for the panel lights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White\/black<\/strong> -  is for the ignition, the tracer says it is from the distributor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green\/yellow<\/strong> - is hot with the ignition on, the yellow is to say it is for the right direction signal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green\/blue<\/strong> - indicates it is for the left direction signal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purple\/black<\/strong> - is hot and fused. The black tracer says it is for the horn button (on later cars).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green\/black<\/strong> - green is hot and fused with ignition on, the black says it is for the fuel gauge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/wires.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/wires-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-20293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas used colours in their wiring to tell us a story. Plain solid colours like red, white, brown, black, purple, green and blue tell you which circuit they belong to:<br \/>\nBlack (B) is ground<br \/>\nBrown (N) is hot, but not fused.<br \/>\nPurple (P) is always hot, but is fused.<br \/>\nWhite (W) is hot when the ignition is on, but [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20295,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289\/revisions\/20295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}