On the arming and bottle heater switches themselves, there are Ground contacts, ACC contacts, and Power contacts. What's the best common grounding point to connect the Ground contacts on all the switches?

And, do you recommend daisy-chaining the Power contacts together from the switched power source?

 

I Daisy chained my panel.
DRy Arm--->to Relay
Wet Arm---to Relay
Bottle Heater---> to Relay
Bottle opener
Purge--->to Relay

No issues


All run from one 25 amp fuse.

The heater of course is wired separately, and right from the battery with its own fuse.

 

Sweeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!! Man, that looks nice. I really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule to post this. That's about the cleanest looking switch configuration I have ever seen. That wiring setup rocks brother ... can't thank you enough Jim.

 

My origional panel was pretty bad, Vinny @ 860 Performance showed me that Y trick when he set up my system, took me a couple tries on some other panels but I got the hang of it now.

 

I did the same thing on mine, just not as pretty LOL

 

I have 2 60-amp relays mounted on the front of the pass. side fender well ... just behind the battery. One relay will power everything like yours does, including the timing tuner. The bottle heater and transducer are wired to the 2nd relay. Both really leads (black) will connect directly to the battery.

I had planned on fusing both relay hot leads individually between the relay and the battery connection using a 30-amp fuse on each. Does this sound about right? All my wiring is 14 gauge, except the arming switch and FPSS, which are 12 gauge and 18 gauge, respectively, because that's what came with the kit.

Connecting all grounds to one individual grounding point using star washers to cut into the body metal of the car. I've heard a lot of problems end up being poor grounding. Any way I can do a better ground point ... maybe to a ground wire on the motor? Or, is the body OK?

Hope you folks don't mind my questions.

 

I think it is better to only place 2 wires per ground.

 

Any particular reason why?

 

hehehehehe, we take the gold on this one. This was the 2nd wiring of my 1st panel, but had mucho, mucho going on.
Robert

 

WOW Robert!!! My connections looked about the same with multiple connectors. I took the car up to my local performance shop and the owner looked over it and just said I really need to re-do some of the connections/splices. I could tell he was almost laughing inside and trying to be serious about it. Hehehehe!!

I bought me a soldering iron and some shrink-wrap and it looks a lot better now ... it was bad before ...

 

I did the same on a couple switches and grounded them directly to the tranny hump:



Not sure if that pic will help or not