I do. If I recall, one wire has power with key on ignition (with the car off, of course).
When the 8 or 10 pin plug from my lower harness to my fusebox (the one with the W/R wire) came unplugged a while ago, the car did stop charging. Plugged it back in, and everything was well.
For science, I'd be willing to unplug and remove my cluster and while the car is running unplug that connector to prove this out (if you and dbeiler really want me to)
I'm wondering if the subharness and bulb sort of have their own circuit, maybe the bulb acts as some sort of a resistor. So if the bulb/circuit isn't present the W/R wire is just happy all the time?
Like I said, I'd also like to know WHY this shouldn't work and does anyways.
Here are my findings from a previous thread:
http://zilvia.net/f/showpost.php?p=6277548&postcount=4