Question:

I'm having someone help me with a wiring issue for something I'm working on (a MOD to the OEM foot well lamps) and he asked me this question:


"There is something you need to know before you go about trying it first though. Find out if your door switches are ground trigger or positive. After I know that I can tell you exatly how to wire everything up."

Does anyone know? I ASSUME (dangerous word there, I know) that he's asking if, when the door switch is activated (door open/close), if it complete the ground part of the circuit or the positive part of the circuit, but does that even matter in the MINI? Knowing MINIs, the sensor's not really a switch burt rather is a computerized sensor that sends a signal to the on-board computer or something.

Thanks!

 

Never mind guys... my local MINI dealer advises that the switch goes directly into the "general module" and advises to not tap into that switch in any way. He said that wiring a relay into the existing foot well wiring (which I assume has a single positive and ground wire only) is the suggested way to do what I want. Now I just need to figure out the right wiring pattern for my relay, given that requirement.

Thanks anyway!