

| Subject: | Re: Refrigerator wiring |
| From: | Loren Busch |
| Date: | Wed, 4 Jul 2007 10:09:49 -0700 |
RE: 'Fridge Fan Wiring Paul, as a good rule of thumb simply run an independent set of wires, hot and ground, when adding something like that.This avoids accidentally having your new circuit find an alternative ground path through something that you didn't intend. When I added an exhaust fan (replacing the external water intake) I ran both a hot and a ground back to the fuse block I've installed that I use for adding any new circuits off the aux battery. I just threw a switch in the line and mounted it in the little grill at the rear end of the kitchen cabinet. I've found that it is easy to use speaker wire (flexible, two lines, one marked for polarity) for such light circuits. And when I added a cutout/overide switch the the fan on the back of the 'fridge itself I just cut into the line between the thermostat switch and the fan itself, didn't mess with any other circuits. Low voltage (read susceptible to circuit resistance) DC circuits can get tricky if you start trying to tap into a convenient source somewhere that seems convenient because you never know what you are doing to the existing circuit. Just ask anyone that has had a stereo installed by a lazy tech that just tapped into the first 'hot' wire he could find, a lot of horror stories there.
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