interior neons

[amanda]

i dont have ciggy lighter in my cheap car, where would be the best place to wire up some footwell neons?

[hobsey]

proberly the best place would be to wire them up the A pillar to the interior light.

[rick]

have a look if you have the wire for the lighter tucked away behind the dash, i\'m guessing they\'ll be there seeing as corsas without back speakers have the wires for them

[martint2k4]

what i did was snip the wires at the end and run them to the fuse box where the fuses are, then wrap the wire round each end of the fuse and then push the fuse back in

[Choppa7]

i ran them up the a pillar to the interior light as said before, then i got clever/stupid.

got some domestic electrical flex connected one end to the + and - on the battery and ran it through the car then got a replacement lighter from halfords and wired it in where the lighter recess is

a tad dangerous but it works!

[Choppa7]

just read that again, i never though of just removing the bloody fuse and wrapping them round that!!

how daft am i! ah well got smoewhere to wire in me neon wire now!!

[Stuart_SRI]

id wire it up the a pillar to the interior light

or, if your wanting interior neons for an ICE basis, link them to an amp. Just make sure u earth it as well! lol

[coollg]

why not wire it upto your headunit. Use tghe power cable from there. Also they will online power on when ur key is in which mite be handay

[Welshmatt]

How can u wire it up to ur headunit

[amanda]

i had one in my ls but it didnt work

this one doesnt have one its covered

[punkheadgray]

you people are well dodgy, \'wrap it around the fuse?\' being an electrician i can tell you that if the wire from the battery comes loose it wont have a fuse on it, and will just spark around, possibly damaging other circuits or most likely it\'d earth itself out... if this happens the cable will draw current until it burns out, probs melt your dash

best thing to do id say is to run a separate wire from the battery, and fit a fuse, (you could use a spare holder in the fuse box if there is one)

run the wire through the push to break switch on the door pillar, (that\'s the one that brings on the interior light when the doors open)

have a manual switch in parallel so that you can turn the neon\'s on and off as you want.

then the circuit goes through the neon down to earth, (id recommend finding an earth already in use, to get a good connection)

this way you wont have the neon\'s on when you are driving unless you want to (think it\'d drive me mad) and the neon\'s will light up when the doors opened

I\'ll post a circuit diagram tomorrow, cant do it at the mo I\'m at work, if you are interested let me know the wattage on the neon\'s and I\'ll work out the fuse rating needed

[Jonto]

could you post the circuit diagram sometime soon for me please?
i\'m poo with electics and really do need something as simple as a diagram.
cheers in advance

[punkheadgray]

Ive emailed you the diagram, any problems let me know, or if you need it explained a bit more.
sent two file attachments by mistake, its the 2nd one you need

if anyone else wants it I\'ll email it to you, cant post it cos its saying its an invalid file type, (drew it on paint)

[amanda]

i wouldnt mind please hun. ablair84@yahoo.co.uk

thanks x

[punkheadgray]

sent you a copy let me know if you are not sure of anything. still not sure of the fuse rating, need to know the wattage of the neon\'s