Reverse light feed

[5988]

Gents, can anyone help out with where the reverse lamps should be fed from

I can't find them in any of the manuals, sure they will be there somewhere, but ant find them

Gt it sorted from the switch to the lamps, its the power to the switch I'm stuck with. I'd guess it would be fed from a ignition switched live via the fuse box, but it is a guess
The wire seems long enough to get to the fuse box

[disco2hse]

The switch is on the top of the LT95 gearbox by the gear lever. Wire in a positive feed from the ignition that runs to the light at the rear, then earth from that onto the chassis. Putting the gear lever into reverse closes the circuit.

[5988]

Got wire in the loom from somewhere to the switch, (colour code is for the supply line if standard Lucas codes, just not clear where it comes from - I think I'll take a switched 12v from the fuse box and use that)
Then one from the switch to the light
Then the light to earth

[disco2hse]

It works?

[5988]

None of my electrics work !

Not yet anyway, all the dash still to go in before I power anything up, dont like the idea of having live wires dangling about while testing other bits

[firemanshort]

IIRC - the reverse lights are powered hot with 12v+ and the switch on the transmission closes the ground leg of the circuit. (black wire)

I might be wrong - but I think that is how mine is wired.

[disco2hse]

IIRC - the reverse lights are powered hot with 12v+ and the switch on the transmission closes the ground leg of the circuit. (black wire)

I might be wrong - but I think that is how mine is wired.

Yep, but the wire should be white to the light then black to ground IIRC.

Light can be tested by sticking a battery on the feed wire and putting the box into reverse. The light should come on.