The red wire comes from the always powered side of the fuse/relay panel.
Lots of things are connected to that same side of the panel and those
things use ground also. Measuring the ohms between the red wire and
ground will show the parallel resistance of all those other things and
this will not be infinity or even close. The clock for example is
connected and can't be turned off separately.

You don't quite know what you are doing yet and so much of what you see
will seem wrong to you. We all learn over time, so keep at it and keep
asking questions.

Mark

reiderikson wrote:
> Of course, I'm hoping to have solved the real problems for now!
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>   It's just that in testing to make sure I connected the red to the red all the way back and such, I tested the red and brown thinking in my head that it would show infinite. When it didn't it left me scratching my head.
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> Just don't want to melt wires again when I hook the battery back up and do this all over again.
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