? How to tap into light power
02-20-2010, 08:08 PM
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? How to tap into light power
Title sucks but I need to find a wire that I can tie into that is only hot when the lights are on. Anyone know of one in the dash. (I know I could tap into the headlights but I would like to keep it simple.)
02-21-2010, 06:27 AM
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There surely is. . .If you pop open your center dash, if you need directions, search or pm, you will find the wirelooms to the heat/ac controls, look for the orange/gray stripe wire, inline tap to that, and there's your hot only when your lights are on (its on the dimmer aswell) so if you dim your interior lights, it will dim whatever lights you're wiring in. I have 2 led's to light up the abyss that is my shifter, and xcase shifter. I got tired of having to fish in the dark to shift.
02-21-2010, 07:56 AM
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There surely is. . .If you pop open your center dash, if you need directions, search or pm, you will find the wirelooms to the heat/ac controls, look for the orange/gray stripe wire, inline tap to that, and there's your hot only when your lights are on (its on the dimmer aswell) so if you dim your interior lights, it will dim whatever lights you're wiring in. I have 2 led's to light up the abyss that is my shifter, and xcase shifter. I got tired of having to fish in the dark to shift.
Guess I know what I will be doing this afternoon! 
02-21-2010, 08:32 AM
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no pulsing, as long as you use one of those inline connectors that leave the existing connection whole, and just taps in. Its not a big wire so i wouldnt load that circuit up with a bunch of lights. I'd say it's probably a 20 ga wire, so be cautious.
02-21-2010, 10:40 AM
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There surely is. . .If you pop open your center dash, if you need directions, search or pm, you will find the wirelooms to the heat/ac controls, look for the orange/gray stripe wire, inline tap to that, and there's your hot only when your lights are on (its on the dimmer aswell) so if you dim your interior lights, it will dim whatever lights you're wiring in. I have 2 led's to light up the abyss that is my shifter, and xcase shifter. I got tired of having to fish in the dark to shift.
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02-21-2010, 02:01 PM
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Actually I originally posted headlight for lack of "really" knowing what I needed. I have located the gray striped orange wire and I think it should work great. The "headlight wire" (as the directions state) changes the gauge from blue to red at night and I just hope it works when dimmed because as they say, "that would be cool!".
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02-21-2010, 04:12 PM
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yup, that'll do it, and it will dim with your dimmer on the tree, LED's significantly dim with the dimmer, nice and smooth, if the gauge has a regular bulb, lemme know how well and sensitive it is to the dimming