Does anyone how where a good hot and grounding wire is to splice into? And what the voltage is on it? I don't really want to have to run new wiring through the firewall, but if I have to I guess I will.

Well you dont have to get a ground wire from the engine bay to ground something else where. ANd as a hot wire. 12v.




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I'm leeching off my wiper fuse in the fuse box, 12 volts and I don't believe that the wiper motors draw 25 amps anyway, plus its just some LED's and a light bulb that are leeching from it.





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How many LEDs are your running from that wiper fuse? Is there any distiguishable difference in the wiper movement? Also, I was thinking that since I never use my cigarette lighter, I could cut those and run them where ever?

The LED's are in my A/F gauge, so there are like 30 No difference in wiper operation, LED's draw very little amps. I tried tapping the cig lighter on mine, but the problem was there was always power going through it, whether the key was in the ignition or not, so you'd have to have a separate switch in order to turn them off when you left the car. Otherwise you would burn out your battery.





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The cigarette light always works even with out the key? That is interesting to know... Does that pull the same 12Vs? If so that would be an awesome candidate for my carputer!

Yeah, its 12v





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youre having cig lighter problems too? mine wont do power. period.

The best source, in my personal opinion (because there is no "best" source - it's all power) is straight from the battery with an inline fuse and switch. This isolates my installation so that if something goes wrong, I know exactly what to look at/for.

Any bare metal makes a good ground. Most of my grounds go directly to my center console's front mounting point, again for ease of troubleshooting purposes.



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in the time it takes u to dig up an alternative wire scource you could just run straight fom your battery to a fused distribution block and now youlle have multiple points for power, i wouldnt run a computer off of the cigarette lighter. youlle need something bigger then that i suspect.


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Raptor wrote:The best source, in my personal opinion (because there is no "best" source - it's all power) is straight from the battery with an inline fuse and switch. This isolates my installation so that if something goes wrong, I know exactly what to look at/for.

Any bare metal makes a good ground. Most of my grounds go directly to my center console's front mounting point, again for ease of troubleshooting purposes.

I haven't look yet, but is there enough room to run wire through the wall or am I going to have to reem out a spot?