But seeing what shares power and ground with what is a great help in
tracking down bad connections.
PaulH.
----- Original Message -----
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
To: <rsexson@excite.com>
Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: Diagrams
> rsexson@excite.com wrote:
> >
> > The electrical diagrams in my haynes manual are schematics.
>
> Actually, they are not schematics, they are indeed wiring
> diagrams.
>
> If they were schematics, the details of the wiring connections
> would not be shown. A wire that goes to ground would just have
> a "ground" image, rather than showing where it is grounded
> and what else grounds where it does.
>
> The reason I bring this up is sometimes I wish I had
> a pure schematic. I have a lot of experience reading circuits
> from schematics, and sometimes I think I would find it easier
> to debug strange behaviour if I could see the circuit in
> standard form.
>
> (ie: to know that this wire is power and this wire
> is ground, rather than tracing them to find what they
> connect to eventually and seeing what that makes them)
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
> Do homeless people really "get" knock knock jokes?
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