Q:We bought a used 2004 Chevy Venture that is a cargo style van... it only had a radio in it. So we just bought a Sony car stereo with a cd player to install in it. However, we are having trouble locating the correct wiring harness for the 2004 Venture. We've bought two already for GM vehicles that should technically work for the year of our van, but they do not work. One salesman told us we needed a very expensive wiring harness because it controls the airbags and other electrical gadgets (but they didn't sell it at his store... he said to look online). I've looked online and can't find anything. Would we be better hardwiring it OR does anyone have any experience with a situation like this? Thanks!

got mine off OKorder 8.00 work perfit

Q:My house is wired for surround sound. The wires coming out of the speakers holes are not labeled as far as i can tell but the wires that are coming out of housing that go into the back of the receiver are labeled 26,27,30,and 31. I cant tell which wires go to which speaker Front Left, Front Right, Rear left or Rear Right. Do these numbers mean anything?

No. It should not be too hard to try hooking on speaker up at a time though and finding what runs to what. Then writing it down. Did the previous owner have a package of documenttion to pass on to you?

Q:well i've been asking for quite sometime on the correct wiring of a bathroom fan up to the same circuit as my light in the bathroom but i believe i've figured out. but i have a question now about the wire guage.the wire guage in the house is the standard solid 12 or 14 i think(house built in 50's) and the the wire that came with the bathroom fan looks a little smaller or about same size but it's braided .it should be fine to splice the two right?

Yes, you can. Use insulated wire nuts. I always wrap the wire nut and connection with electrical tape. Safety First! Also my parents have house that was built in 1908 and they didn't use a ground back then. Make sure your house has one.

Q:I am in the middle of changing my thermostat and I am so lost on where the wires go! Anyone who knows anything please help.My old system was labeled and hooked up like this:White Wire (W)Red Wire (R)Blue Wire (B)Green Wire (G)Now I am looking at my new system and these are the spots that I have:(G) (RH)(RC)This has a red wire attached like a jumper wire(Y/O) (W/B) (Y1)What wires do I plug into where? Please re-post with the wire color next to where it should go.

Based on normal practice It doesn't appear that you have air conditioning, only convential/gas heat. And the thermostat you bought is for air conditioning and heat pump systems. It likely will still work, you'll have to read through the book to see how to program it for convential heat in the installer set-up Red wire to (R) doesn't matter which one White wire to (W) Green wire to (G) Blue wire to nothing, the blue wire was your common wire which is required to make the old thermstat work off power from the unit, the new thermostat runs on batteries and doesn't have the option to run off power from the unit. Note: turn the power off to the unit, touching red and blue together will short out the transformer

Q:Consider a copper wire 1 mm in diameter providing the power needed to run an appliance drawing a 4.8 kW at 12 V. Assuming that no heat is radiated away from the wire while the current flows:A. What will the temperature of the wire be after the current has run for 1 second through the wire?B. What will the physical condition of the wire be at that time?(The wire was initially at 20 degrees C)

Assume the wire is 1 meter long. Resistance of a wire in Ω R = ρL/A ρ is resistivity of the material in Ω-m L is length in meters A is cross-sectional area in m? A = πr?, r is radius of wire in m resistivity Cu 17.2e-9 Ω-m or 17.2e-6 ohm-mm R = (17.2e-6)(1000) / π(0.5)? = 0.022 ohms Appliance current is 4800/12 = 400 amps Power is I?R = 400? x .022 = 3520 watts. Problem, this power is at a level almost as high as that of the appliance. In other words, the wire is too thin to sustain that power level. .

Q:i have 2 audiobahn 12s and an adiobahn amp in my 2000 malibu...1. the thin blue wire that comes from the amp to the stereo is connected to an orange wire behing the (stock) stero, and when i turn off the car the amp stays on. does anyone know which wire to connect the blue wire to, so the amp turns off with my radio or when i turn off the key.2. only one of my 12s is hitting, i think ther might be a wire connected wrong behind the stero. since i have a stock stereo and i have a converter hooked up, because it had no rca inputs on it. its not the speaker or the rca wire itself, because when i connect it with a y cable to the amp one or the other will work...i would appreciate it if someone could help.

I dont specifically know what the wiring diagram for a malibu is, (you should look this up if you dont already know, so that you can properly wire your amp), but this is how it should be connected: 1. the blue wire should be hooked to the remote turn on wire or power ant wire from your car 2. the power wire should be wired directly to your battery, with an inline fuse. The power wire should NOT be connected to any of the wires already existing in your car. 3. the ground wire should be connected directly to a ground point in your car The reason that your amp is not shutting off when the car turns off is because you more than likely did not properly connect the remote turn on/power antenna lead. If your car doesn't have one, you can connect it to the ignition (be careful when doing this). As for the subs, check the wires that you spliced into to your line-out converter. It sounds like you may not have properly connceted the left wire, and only the right is getting a signal. If it's not that, then maybe you bought a crappy line-out converter and it's broken.

Q:I like bending paperclips to make things, does anyone know where you could buy spools of the wire paperclips are made out of.(any type of wire that is the same size and material will work)

Paperclip okorder

Q:my speaker makes a fuzzy or static noise while the scene has high or low sound. I cut my wire in half because I bought a subwoofer and we didn't get the wires with it. So I cut it. After all I didn't need the wire for the subwoofer. Could my speakers make such noises because of cutting a wire?

Shortening your speaker wire will not cause this problem. In fact, shortening your speaker wires should give you less static since there is less resistance. Most than likely, it's not your speakers causing the static sound, but your amplifier or receiver. You may be looking for a new one soon.

Q:what size of wire do i need and is the new fuse box/trip box kept in garage.or where can i get wiring diagrams from

depends on what you want to do. the best thing to do is get the local building codes for your area and make sure you meet all the requirements. 14/2 is a good wire easy to use for 110v. Outlets, light switches. ect.

Q:Will you please remove any of the wires? The edge of the body, which is made of wire or what? Is it copper or iron?

If you or a cigarette lighter, it is copper, because the melting point of copper at 1083 degrees, and generally lighter temperature at about 500 degrees, only the fire lighter to more than 1 thousand degrees, according to the flame to determine the temperature of different colors, red yellow blue to white to a minimum, more and more high.