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Section 8
Electrical
ELECTRICAL WIRE NUMBER AND COLOR
GENERAL WIRE LABELS
Kenworth introduced a new electrical wire numbering system in 2007. This wire number system uses only 10 different
colors and only one striped wire color. These colors determine a circuits FUNCTION as follows:
R/W
Direct Battery Power
RED
Protected Battery Power
ORG
IGN/ACC/Start Power
YEL
Activated Power
BRN
Indicator Illumination, Backlighting
BLK
Load Return
GRY
Control
VIO
Reference Voltage
BLU
Sensor Signal
GRN
Sensor common not connected to GND
WHT
Ground
Each wire has at a minimum a 7 character label, the first three characters are the circuits color as listed above, the re
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maining four are numerical which relate to the load the wire services. See TABLE 6-4 for the general categories.
TABLE 8-5.
Wire Number General Categories
To identify similarly labeled wires a suffix can be added.
For example: YEL2950-1 would be a yellow wire indicating it is activated power. The 2950 indicates the load, in this case
fog lamps, the -1 is a suffix used to differentiate similarly labeled circuit.
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