neons, led switch wiring?

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Topic: neons, led switch wiring?

Posted By: nolan11
Subject: neons, led switch wiring?
Date Posted: May 05, 2006 at 9:47 AM

I have a blue neon lights under each dash and light up pedals.

I had a standard toggle switch controling both the neon lights and pedals.

I bought a LED light up switch from Advanced Auto that lights up when switched on looks like this with the 3 prongs....one says POS, middle one says ACC bottom says NEG.

Ever since i hooked it up i keep blowing a 30A fuse. My question is the fuse to small of Amps or my wiring could be wrong. I was using a 30A fuse before and everything was fine.

Now the fuse is blowing. Since the switch lights up do i need a bigger amp fuse? I wouldnt think I would.

So to save some time can someone please tell me the basic way the wiring should be hooked up?

I just want the switch, neon lights and pedals to light up when i turn on the switch.

Thanks

Bruce

it looks like this posted_image

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Posted By: xtremej
Date Posted: May 05, 2006 at 2:38 PM

Does the fuse blow as soon as you hook up the wires? Or when you switch them on.

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Posted By: nolan11
Date Posted: May 06, 2006 at 9:14 AM

the fuse blows when i turn the switch on.

thanks

Posted By: KPierson
Date Posted: May 06, 2006 at 11:15 AM

First of all, your fuse is WAY too big. You should have a 5A on there, if you are just running two neon tubes. You could probably get away with a 3A if you could find one.

The POS terminal should go to a fused 12VDC source. The NEG terminal should go to ground.

The ACC terminal should go to the + of your neon transmormer, and the - of your neon transformer needs to go to ground.

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Kevin Pierson

Posted By: crcustoms45
Date Posted: May 29, 2006 at 4:32 PM

i agree. remember you are adding a light to the circuit. the switch will still work without the (-) wire connected, it is only for the light on switch.

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Chris
CRCustoms