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And just so everyone knows... this is a personal fued between @m715mike and I to determine who buys lunch next time! We don't need to win, just get more votes than the other! 😆😄🤣
My troubleshooting life got SO much easier when I learned to use a meter!! Not just for resistance... learning about voltage drop, the relationship between volts and amps vs watts etc has helped make electricity make sense instead of being PFM... (Pretty Freaking Magical)...
That does look like a ground.
Do you have a test light? If so, test as stated above. If you have a multi-meter, set it to test resistance (the symbol looks like this:
Then place one of your meter probes on the frame (or a known ground) and the other on the head of that bolt. If your reading...
I've still got some emails/feelers out. There's a nice man in Massachusetts who I explained the issue to and he's going to check their storage to see if he can find a physical copy of the TM for us.
And not to brag or make you feel bad, but this is what I'm talking about. This is a subsea robot I work on (Remotely Operated Vehicle):
This is the square can in the upper right of the above picture while we were repairing it:
And this is it 8 hours later:
If I have to reopen that can...
To be honest, I work with systems that have hundreds of wires, from power/ground to signal and telemetry. If I opened a can on my system and saw what you posted, I would undo it and start over and run them neatly, verify what is what and build it back to spec (your wiring diagram).
That way you...
Not to be argumentative, as you are MUCH more knowledgeable than I about a lot of this, but I'm confused now as the TM doesn't mention a diagnostics port: