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Old 08-27-2008, 04:10 AM
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I have seen a picture here before, where the grounds for the db37 were wired all togehter with a kind of "clamp" - at the moment I am not able to find this pic anymore (I think it was a pic Braineack made).

How did you do the ground wiring? All the wiring to the main ground point on the car or also to the OEM ECU grounds? With a "clamp" on the DB37 or all wired with a single wire?
Pics would be great.

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It's best to ground the DB37 ground wires to the engine block using multiple ground wires.
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Old 08-27-2008, 08:49 AM
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You could probably check out the build you own megasquirt write-up...that's where I would look.
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Well, that was were I was looking, but most of the pictures weren't there anymore.

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aw....my bandwidth has been exceeded!!!!! first time in over a year...ive never come close before...i wonder why, and of course i cant log into my cpanel to see.
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technically you can run grounds for 7 - 19.
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Thanks Braineack,

I was looking for the pic with a kind of big wire lead running over all the pins on the DB37 to one big ground wire...

But maybe I just wire the 2x3 wires together to one big ground wire for each of the 3 wires.

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I take the 14g wire provided in the wire kit, and split the copper strands to make three points, like a trident. Stick each into 7 - 8 - 9 , then solder it all making one big blob.
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