Castor
Trainee maniac
Firstly my grumpy rant...
I have just come back to my 97 P38 - it needs an MOT etc - and I have a number if electrical issues I'd like to address.
I have looked at RAVE, and indeed at many other manufacturers electrical schematics over the years, and I would like to make the following point to anyone who will listen:-
I have never seen such a load of incompetently presented utter drivel in my life. An electrical system should be presented in the form Functional Diagram, Block Cable Diagram, Termination Diagram, Loop Diagrams, and should exist alongside a Functional Description & a Cause & Effect chart or schedule.
Each of the subsystems should be presented in the same manner.
These very simple, very readable diagrams are simply not present!!! Ever!!
Instead, what we have to put up with is each manufacturers attempt to - well I have no ****ing idea what they are attempting to do. What they succeed in is convincing ordinary people that vehicle electrics are too difficult - they are not. Grump! Impenetrable nonsense.
Signed, Castor CEng, MIEE, MIEEE, etc. who normally does nuclear engineering and *does* know what he is talking about in this particular case.
Sorry - I had to get that out. I'm furious on behalf of home mechanics every where.
Has anyone, to the best knowledge of all here, ever reverse engineered the documents I'm talking about?
I have just come back to my 97 P38 - it needs an MOT etc - and I have a number if electrical issues I'd like to address.
I have looked at RAVE, and indeed at many other manufacturers electrical schematics over the years, and I would like to make the following point to anyone who will listen:-
I have never seen such a load of incompetently presented utter drivel in my life. An electrical system should be presented in the form Functional Diagram, Block Cable Diagram, Termination Diagram, Loop Diagrams, and should exist alongside a Functional Description & a Cause & Effect chart or schedule.
Each of the subsystems should be presented in the same manner.
These very simple, very readable diagrams are simply not present!!! Ever!!
Instead, what we have to put up with is each manufacturers attempt to - well I have no ****ing idea what they are attempting to do. What they succeed in is convincing ordinary people that vehicle electrics are too difficult - they are not. Grump! Impenetrable nonsense.
Signed, Castor CEng, MIEE, MIEEE, etc. who normally does nuclear engineering and *does* know what he is talking about in this particular case.
Sorry - I had to get that out. I'm furious on behalf of home mechanics every where.
Has anyone, to the best knowledge of all here, ever reverse engineered the documents I'm talking about?
