Hardwiring Interior Neon

I am putting in one of those neon kits that pulses to the beat of the music. How would I go about hardwiring that to the cigarette lighter inside the car? It only has a cigarette lighter adapter coming from it. If I cut the wires, where would I connect them? Thanks.

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Success Follows Struggle

First find out which wire is positive (+) and negative (-). Ground the - to the chasis and power the + to the accessory wire on the ignition harness, be sure to fuse that + wire. Also wire your switch for the lights inline on the + wire for the neons. Now you can tap into the cig. lighter but i don't suggest it. It sometimes can lead to problems w/ it drawing to much power from that factory circuit. If u let me know what car you are putting the lights in i'll tell you what the acc. wire is.

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Mecp Certified
Double check advice with your Meter.

It's a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer.

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Success Follows Struggle

i kind of got the same problem with a headlight strobe i just bought....i have no clue to wire it..im just a newb

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if it help si got a redline/quest strobe and have a swtich and bla bla..but not for sure what to hook up the pos(+) to..neg i think is chassis.

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the negative doesnt have to go all the way to the chassis, if you find a wire that is already grounded you can tap into that one and solder your negative onto that.

My friends and I installed some neons in my car....we just used some kits that were to be used to Underglows...it was really easy....it came with a switch, instructions, everything....I got it down at Autozone, great kit, I would just recommend buying one of those...nothing through the cigarette adapter at all....straight to the battery.

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~Vanbulance Driver~

A simple answer should due...these guys are new this was one of my first installs also.

If you are trying to hardwire the lights to the ciggarette lighter, gain access to the wires that supply power to it. There should be two! One of these wires is positive one is negative. (use of a voltmeter to distinguish the two is highly recomended) These two wires are used one to each end of the two wires coming from the neons. It is recomended that you hook the lights to a source in your car that shuts of when you remove the keys so choose wisely.

you should not cut the wires going to the cig lighter completely but splice them this will make sure the cig lighter is still operable

don't splice it into the cig lighter.  even if you're a newbie it's not that bad.  first.... try and do some reading about 12volt stuff.... a good place to start is here :)  next, find your acc. wire! thats what you want, or you can put it on your parking lights, either will work. the toughest part is finding your wire.  once you find the wire, you have it made.  strip back the jacket without cutting the wire and wrap your neon's + wire to it.  when soldering, make sure you heat up the wire and have the solder on the wire so the wire "soaks up" the solder.  find a a nice little place around your dash to ground that biatch and you should have it made. just run the wire and mount your neons.

OK now I dont know where my acc wire is, I have a honda accord 94 lx coupe.... I put 4 12's and a huge amp in here ... but Im only good with car audio stuff (in the newbie sense of 'good') I want to get a Yellow top battery to put in the trunk and a red top to replace the reg. battery, I could use these for hooking up neons etc... right?? If I were to do this, would the battery need a way of recharging?> how long woudl it be before it died out?? woudl I just get a power distro. block for all the accesories and stuff>?? I talked to an installer about installing a yellow top in when I put my system in but he wanted to run the battery to the amp... how woudl that work if theres no alt. involved in that?? how would you power a 1500 amp with a battery???puzzled me ... sorry this is long :-D gotta learn somehow!

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Love-peace-guidance

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Dude, if youve got an amp it makes it that much easier.  Run your positive wire for you light off of the remote mem (or power wire) on your amp - the small blue one.  hook the negative to the negative on your amp or to any metal on the car. your set. if you hooked to the right wires, the neon turns off when you turn the car off.

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41+ 66point6 = our loss

i did some looking around for wiring for a while and for the major newbies.... you can run a ring terminal of your battery..this wire goes to switch (easiest way i think is with a switch). The other wire coming of your switch should be the positive going to your transformer, grounding the wire (negative) to the chassis with a screw....by the way..im setting up some headlight strobes so interior neons might be diffrent

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yeah I dont wanna have like a huge mess of wires coming off my battery... my future plans are going to runa yellowtop in the trunk to a fuse board, so I can plug everything into there and then I want to get a n alt upgrade cuz the load of the battery already on there is enough ....

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Love-peace-guidance

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