Driving Lights Installation Questions
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Year: 2002
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Yeah if I pick up power from under the dash that would be one wire out. Probably just pull the the wire from my cig lighter and use that.
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OK I'm about 3/4 of the way through. These things are a little bit of a PITA, seeing how I had to take off the bumper to mount them. Anyway....where exactly do I tap into the fuse panel under the dash????
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From: Knoxville, TN
Year: 1998
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There a couple of ways to do it. If all your doing is pulling power to power the switch you can get fuse blade taps and just plug the wire into an existing fuse. That would be the easiest and the best. Or you can just strip a few inches of wire and then pull a fuse and wrap the wire around one of the blades and plug it back in. If you want a fuse that comes on with the ignition you'll need to find a voltage meter and test the different fuses to see which ones come on with the key.
Here is what the fuse tap looks like. You can get these at most auto parts stores or worse case scenario...radio shack
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ok use this connector and plug in the yellow slot use all times red slkot only when key is on assuming you fuse box ios this one ,yellow say bat red say ign
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True, thats one reason I mentioned if only to power the switch/relay. Not the lights. The power for those should be taken from a better source. I powered my switch using this method and has worked fine. A long long LOOOONG time ago I powered a cb....but that had a lot of interference (now its connected straight to battery).
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True, thats one reason I mentioned if only to power the switch/relay. Not the lights. The power for those should be taken from a better source. I powered my switch using this method and has worked fine. A long long LOOOONG time ago I powered a cb....but that had a lot of interference (now its connected straight to battery).
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