What are these wires for?

[Tyre Smoke]

Under the dash top, behind the small dials. Four connectors. Two with a single pink wire running to them and two with two green wires running to them. Nothing obvious for them to connect to. Heated seat switches, Heated screen (was that even fitted to a Chimaera?) or something else?

[Zumbruk]

AFAIK, TVR used Land Rover looms for the Chimaera, and these are left-over connectors from those.

[Tyre Smoke]

Yeah, that is true. My first Chimaera had the LR labels on the loom near battery.

[Steve_D]

The greens are ignition switched live and the pinks will be for the aircon option.

Steve

[Tyre Smoke]

Thanks Steve.

So, ignition fed live available. Hmmmmm

[Penelope Stopit]

Tyre Smoke said:

So, ignition fed live available. Hmmmmm

One of the greens going to the terminal with two greens connected to it is a fused ignition switched positive and the other green with it loops to another terminal. The powered green cable shouldn't be used for anything other than switching a relay circuit or a circuit with a very low current draw, the fuse that protects it can't be uprated as it is rated to protect circuits already in use

The thing is though, if the powered green isn't used for any other circuit it could be used to supply any circuit that has a maximum current draw of 8 Amps as long as a correctly rated fuse was fitted

Who'd have thought a couple of green cables would one day have a book written about them

[Tyre Smoke]

Thing is, I can't think of anything I'd want to fit anyway.

[Penelope Stopit]

You could though if you used your imagination

Have just imagined what it would be like to have a dashboard mounted green LED that illuminates when the green cable is powered and having the pleasure of informing others that the green cable is powered up

[Tyre Smoke]

Can't have green in a blue car!

[Penelope Stopit]

In which case I'll shut up

[Tyre Smoke]