Optima XL6 Question - loose wire.

[IanNolan123]

Evening all.

This is hopefully a simple one for any installer / engineer familiar with Optima XL6.

Was installing a new battery today and found a loose RED wire as can be seen in the pics. (currently held in the tamper spring)

Other wires in that cable are as follows.

Black to '20' strobe -ve

Blue to 'T' SCB

Yellow to 'B' Bell -ve

White bundled to 13v +ve

Can anyone please help as to where this loose RED belongs? Terminals 19 (strob +ve), A SCB, and D (Bell +) are all empty. Guessing it might have come from one of those.

If you need any more pics to be able to help, please let me know.

Thanks
Ian

 

[secureiam]

D probably

 

[secureiam]

But if that’s to the bell usually a bell negative is black but nothing there.

Only way to be certain is to open bell box and check the wires there.

looks like others may be missing.

 

[sparkymarka]

And the green off that 6 core ? …maybe they used the green and white and connected to the aux instead of the the bell power output ….that would make the red a spare

 

[IanNolan123]

And the green off that 6 core ? …maybe they used the green and white and connected to the aux instead of the the bell power output ….that would make the red a spare

Hi - thanks for your reply.


The Green from that 6 core goes to 22 13v -ve bundled with all other Greens?

Does that then make that spare red redundant as you say? Just has always been spare and just wants tidying up?

 

[securespark]

If it were a spare core, my guess is that it wouldn't be stripped back.

 

[sparkymarka]

It may have had a bellbox with a separate + strobe connection at some time …eg early gardtec …as said before without seeing what bellbox or what’s in the bellbox …it’s guess work …I would be more concerned about the battery charging resistor behind the keypad