Megajolt Cable Shielding
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Hey guys!

So ive been over to autosport labs reading their wiki and the only thing I cant get my head around is the shielded cable and earthing it.

so I chopped out the EDIS 4 diagram to save space:



Basically i cant get my head around the cable shield and earthing it.

If I bought shielded cable how would I go about earthing it?
Would i cut a load of the plastic off to get to the shield and then attach a wire to the pins on the edis? Do I just connect it to a wire and earth it?
Do I even need to earth it if I bought shielded cable in the first place?

Everything else seems easy enough just connect wires here and there.

With regards to the molex plug and rev limiters and tachometer:

Does the coil pack power supply conenct to the megajolt directly? Im guessing this is a yes in order to cut power to be able to limit the revs

The wire that goes from the coil to the rev counter atm - will I just connect that to the correct part of the megajolt molex plug and then it will work also?




Many thanks for your help so far

Craig

I've used the cable from the escort i got my stuff from. the sheilding simply loops into the earth cable - its a bit like a co-ax cable

Yep, you need to earth the shield, but only at one end.

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earth it at the edis end to pin 7.

so i just need to earth pin 7?

edit:

how do I actaully earth it though? Thats the bit i dont understand how to connect it to an earth?

Edited by Craigie-B on 7th Dec, 2011.

have you guys got a photo ofhow you connected it, because all I can imagine in my head is having to chop the wire to get to the shield to connect it to a different wire ?

Actually, join the earth shielding to wire and then to earth. Just solder it or crimp it.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/twin-individually-screened-130

just found this, I can see from the bottom image that I was getting confused for no reason. Im guessing all of the shielded cables have it poking out the end like that and as such you can ground it easy enough :)

I can join the two together and then ground it in one place right?

that's it

excellent, one more thing do i connect the coilpack power cable directly to the megajolt ( I have a hard rev limiter) cheers!

no 2 on the coil pack plug to number 8 on the edis

yeah and then that to the megajolt molex plug?

edit: double post

Edited by Craigie-B on 7th Dec, 2011.

Megajolt and edis both need 12v. the edis gets it on number 8