A lot of remote starters and alarms have two power wires and they say you should hook them up to two separate power wires coming from the ignition, however, what do you do in a case where your car ignition only supplies one power wire? If you take both power wires from the brain and tied them together and hook to the one power wire from the ignition, won't you possible blow a main fuse? Should I go to the directly to battery for power if the car only has one power wire at ignition?
Thanks,.....
MikeHusain wrote:
A lot of remote starters and alarms have two power wires and they say you should hook them up to two separate power wires coming from the ignition, however, what do you do in a case where your car ignition only supplies one power wire? If you take both power wires from the brain and tied them together and hook to the one power wire from the ignition, won't you possible blow a main fuse? Should I go to the directly to battery for power if the car only has one power wire at ignition?
Thanks,.....
Connect them both to the same wire provided this wire is fused 30 amps or more. The power wires from the remote should be fused 15 amps each. If the wire from the ignition is not big enough then yes going to the battery + is perfectly acceptable (fused of course).
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I have been installing remote starters for like...forever. As a general rule of thumb, if there is two power wires form the ignitiion switch, and they are the same gauge of wire, then usually they are fused the same, and i go to each one. If there is one wire that has a gauge bigger then one of the other ones, then i go to that wire, which is usaully fused at a higher value. Then of course if there is only one wire, and it is larger than about 14 gauge, then you go to that wire. If the wire is smaller than 14 gauge then there is always a power sourse elsewhere under the dash. etc, caravan, aztec, escape...etc.