Q:I'm trying to tighten the electrical wires on my car.Do I just use pliers and twist them tighter?Can I use my hands?-tightening the wires on my ignition switch and starterNeed to know asapNo B.S. just need to know how

I think that twisting with a pair of pliers is best, less chance of getting a nasty metal splinter in your skin.

Q:I have a minivan with a flat 5 pin wiring connecter at back. We bought an old utility trailer with no wiring. It has the two rear lights, one on each side with 2 wires sticking out of each. We got the flat 5 pin trailer connector to connect to the van and bought a long piece of cable which has the white, brown, green and yellow wires in it. Where do I connect what? I have the wire that connects to the van with the four colours and 2 wires coming out of each light for the trailer.Thanks!

ok wiring 101 just think of the road yellow line left side =left hand signal. green grass right side of road = right hand signal. brown = leave the dirt behind =running lights .white ground your trailer is wired

Q:You have a 3 foot wide wire, vs a .3 inch wire. They are equal length. There is 3 volts going through each wire, to power your 1 volt LED. So, would the 3 foot wide wire have less resistance ? I don't even think it would work.

When I started out, I found that the water analogy was helpful. Water flow (through a pipe) represents the electrons flowing (= current). The pipe represents the wire. It's hard to push a high flowrate of water through a small pipe (say like a drinking straw), but easy through a large-diameter pipe. The small pipe shows high resistance to flow, the large pipe shows little resistance to flow. Electrical current works the similarly, for electrons flowing through the wire. In electrical circuits, voltage corresponds to pressure. Are you aware that to push 1A through a wire of resistance 1 ohm requires a voltage drop across the wire of 1V? And that if you increase that voltage to 2V (from 1V), twice the current will flow (=2A), even though the resistance stays the same? If you had two of those wires (connected in parallel), you could push 1A through each wire by applying 1V across each wire. That would total 2A without having to increase the voltage. Well, that essentially is what a larger-diameter wire is, it's the equivalent of taking two (or more) smaller wires and melding their cross sections together into that of a single wire. But since it now takes only 1V to push 2A instead of 2V, it appears that the resistance is half as much, as in 0.5ohms, when using both wires. From that you can conclude that larger-diameter wires have lower resistance. Hope that helps. Later you will discover that the water analogy doesn't match perfectly well since its pressure relationship is highly non-linear, whereas the electrical relationship tends to be highly linear. Also, we generally don't push water back-and-forth in pipes the way some electrical circuits use alternating current. That's a heads-up that the water analogy will fail to explain some of the electrical things you'll run into.

Q:Suppose we have a 10v battery.one end of the battery is at 10V electric potential and other is at 0V Hence,the potential difference is 10V.if we measure the voltage( p.d.) across positive terminal at 10V and the middle of the wire connecting both ends of battery will it be less??I mean,at the middle of the wire the electric will not be zero,right??(correct me if am wrong)Thanks!!

If the wire had some reasonable resistance which prevented melting of the wire and explosion of the battery; the middle of the wire would show half the potential difference between the terminals. The wire connecting the terminals becomes a potentiometer with Voltage falling linearly between the terminals (assuming uniform resistance along the length of the wire). In practice, Voltage drop on a wire supplying power to a load is proportional to the resistance of the wire divided by the resistance of the load. When the wire is the load, all Voltage drop occurs along the wire.

Q:Does anyone know what the wire harness is called that runs from the chassis to the door called on a 1995 jeep gc. This wire harness includes the speaker wires, power window wires, and power lock wires. I have checked everywhere and cannot see what this harness is called.

Its called a wire harness. I beleive it is the main dash wire harness, but you wont get anywhere with that if you are trying to get one from a parts house or dealer, You just have to hit and miss at the salvage yard or digging around yourself and get lucky. But if you can trace the wires to a block connector or firewall connector you will be in luck and just tell them the location of the block where the harness is connected and you should be there, just remember all your options in you truck will have to match the options in the donor truck or the harness wont work for you

Q:i need thin insulated wire like this.

It is called enamelled copper wire or copper winding wire. You will find it at Digi-key and other electronics retailers. Check OKorder as well. It comes in different gauges (thicknesses), the higher the number, the thinner the wire. I'd say the stuff he uses in the video is about 30 gauge.

Q:im hooking a amp up and i need to run my remote wire to my ignition wire

I have wired up alot of amps and the remote wire on the amp should be connected to the power antenna/amp turn on wire on the stereo head unit. This allows the amp to only turn on when the stereo is on. If you are connecting an amp to a factory stereo,I see why you would need to find an ignition wire. You need to probe the fuse panel with a 12 volt test light to find a circuit that only comes on with the key. Usually there is a spare accessory fuse location just for this. Buy a fuse tap or specialty fuse from a auto parts store to connect your remote wire to. There is very little current draw to turn on the amp,so almost any circuit on the fuse panel will work if it is only on with the key.

Q:whats a good brand for 0 gauge wire to get? im looking for a good brand that has 100% OFC wire, i would get knukonceptz, but their wires are copper coated aluminum which isnt as good.

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Q:Two current carrying wires are perpendicular to each other.Wire 1 is placed on top of wire 2.Wire 1 current direction is pointing North, wire 2 current direction is pointing east. Is there a force on either of the two wires?Does one wire spin due to the produced force?Please explain to me how to do this questionThanks

very confusing subject. look into on to bing and yahoo. just that can assist!

Q:how do I replace this, the wire is built into the speaker and runs into the unit.

If you have enough wire, just twist it back together and cover the open wiring with electrical tape. If he took out a chunk of wire, just buy some more speaker wire and do t he same thing. The wires should be red and black, just connect the red to the red and the black to the black. It's a really quick and easy fix you can do yourself.