How to wire door lock and power window switches

in this video we're going to wire up some power windows some door lock switches uh for the power windows which is the topic I'm going to tackle first off I'm going to show you two switches one here which is a authentic spell made in USA type Windows switch with the arrow icons also very much popularly known with this little icon which has a little window icon this is a five wire dual rocker type of switch and I'm going to explain to you about the wiring um not just for these switches but almost any switch because any of these types of switches whether it be uh a Windows switch they're all going to have the similar properties need to be wired the same way and I'm also going to debunk some of the standardized wiring color codes on both of these switches as well so here we go now just so you understand what's going on here on my workbench I like to show you what I have over there that's my 12volt power supply okay so that red and black pair of wires which you're going to see every now and then if you're wondering what they are that's what they are these come from my power supply and I'm going to be using this as my Standard 12vt Supply to do my tutorial with my switch now over here this one here is the nons spell switch I know it looks like a real authentic spell made you know USA real deal however unfortunately this is not this is the China man now if you'll notice what the China man does and he likes to do an awful lot because he's just so darwn crafty is they mimic wire color Coates that are USA standards now on the back of the switch just so you get a good perspective front now the top and the bottom doesn't really matter because it's it's just a five wire switch the outer legs which are the green and blue which are also standardized uh wire colors for aftermarket door locks by the way if it if it matters to you um now the the right in the Center that's going to be your positive 12 volts going into the switch the two Browns those are going to be both connected to ground constant ground okay now in a typical scenario this is the way it's going to work just sharpen that up real fast Just For Speed sake what I've done is I already have this plug partially wired um in there on the bottom the two Browns are the ground so I have this black wire running out and I have this pigtail here for the red which is going to be my 12 Vols positive so I'm just going to ground these two blacks while I'm doing that I'm going to hold off on connecting the red just yet and I'll show you why this this switch here you see is nonilluminated but when I touch the 12vt power wait that's not working what happened my wire came out these videos are hard getting harder and harder to make all right maybe now it'll work there's a switch no lights when I connect it now now you can see the the uh green lights coming on now this is pretty typical in anybody's um door panel when you get in your car and you turn your ignition key on all the switches in your vehicle are going to come on so that way you can find them in the dark right now here's the trick when you're doing aftermarket switches you have a choice you can either have the switches wired up um on accessory power constant power you can get sophisticated you can even tie them into a delayed door trigger uh turnoff circuit if you wanted to like an like an a GM vehicle has a lot of cars have these delayed turnoff circuits um just keep in mind that whenever you have power going to the 12 volts and you have grounds what which you always have on the two Browns that's the only time your power windows will work okay so if your key is off your power windows aren't going to work and some cars if you have your key in there with the key sents on that's good enough the accessory will stay on it all depends on you so whenever you're wiring power window switches pay good forethought into your master switch this one here let's just say is your master switch which is going to control say your driver door and also P run power to all your other doors for your front passenger your rears Etc so on make sure you treat that one right because whatever you feed into your master switch is also going to be fed in all to all your slave switches and some of these systems can be up to seven switches in length so be very careful when you do wire it up you don't want to do it see it works put your door panels all back together just to find out that it's not powered up the exact way that you want it to be so that's that's what that's all about now as far as explaining to you how these things work why they work what they do is very is very simple and I'm going to explain it to you really fast in a way that you can understand now this here is my test light I love this test light because it does a bunch of stuff it shows me ground and 12 volts because it's a dual LED and I can also throw negative and positive voltage from my test light so with my switch energized which we know because the LED is is on in the switch if I take my test light and touch either one of these output legs from my power window switch you see that both rest both resting a ground now what's going to happen is when you push the switch to the up position the up wire is going to throw 12 volt positive the other wire is going to be resting at Ground so that with the opposing polarity in that scenario is going to make the window go up when I do testing on the down wire push the switch into down position the opposite is going to happen so on when this one here is throwing 12 12 volts positive on here this one here is getting the opposite 12 volts negative and that's what makes the window go up you reverse the polarity and it goes down in the other direction that's how all power window switches work it's very simple straightforward principle but believe it or not I get more questions on this than you can even imagine but that's really all there is to it it's not that complicated it's nothing mystical about it whatsoever um however when you do have these other types of switches which could be Imports um you know spell switches like this one here I want to show you you can see the pin configuration layout and much different than what you see on the other one you got 1 two 3 four five six pins with these types of switches it's not always you know as simple as it is with these types of switches with this this is what I call real standardized wiring something like this do yourself a favor call the manufacturer know what know what the pin configurations are Google it online ask me or somebody else who knows so that way you don't screw it up cuz you don't want to burn your switches up but that is something you should definitely pay good attention to and while we're on a the topic of doing switches I also want to touch on door loock switches because I've getting I've gotten questions on this topic as well so real quick this here is just a a standard three pin switch what's going on here is whatever polarity you put on the center conductor in this case I'm going to be making pretend I'm going to be doing a set of door locks okay now I'm a fan of safety safety first for me that's it's the rule and it should be for you so if I have a choice I would have my door lock system wired up like this where I have ground on my Center conductor and I would throw ground on the two outer pins for lock and unlock and of course however you mount your switch is going to depend on what what it is so if you want the top to be you know unlock of course Mount the switch in this way if you mount it up this way and you say uhoh just reverse the two wires not that big of a deal it's not that serious people but what you're going to see here is ground all the time on the outside just to illustrate ah hang on actually I can't even do it because my test my test light isn't connected in circuit but take my word for it ground on a semiconductor when I put push the switch up here it's going to connect these two connectors and it's going to throw ground on out on on the top unlock leg down on the lock that's a wrap that's all there is to it folks so d if you're going to do it throw negative signals because the relays which are going to be mounted elsewhere is going to be actually doing all the grunt work and throwing all the power let those throw the the voltage sources around don't let the switches do it it's much simpler much more effective and better and that's what we like better so there you go there's my tutorial on the switches see you next time

Channel: Lessco Electronics

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Keywords: power window switches, how to wire power window, door lock switches, 5 wire switches, power window installation, power window switch wiring, power window wiring, power window relay switches, electric window conversion, power windows, power window switch, power window relay, how to wire power windows, power window installation kit, custom power window switches, 5 wire door lock actuator, how to wire power window switch, door lock switch, power window, central locks

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Length: 8min 58sec (538 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 10 2013