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Old Aug 12, 2008 | 05:17 PM
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when people fits gauges that are mounted in pods on the window piller where do you wire it all from like the power do you go from the battery or is there a better place?
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Old Aug 12, 2008 | 05:27 PM
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an ign live from the fuse box or fit a ancillary relay
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dont mean to sound dumb but whats an ancillary relay?
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a relay that you wire in to power your ancillary comonents....
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Old Aug 12, 2008 | 06:20 PM
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so do you just run that off the battery then im not to clue up on this stuff?
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Old Aug 20, 2008 | 11:06 PM
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so do you just run that off the battery then im not to clue up on this stuff?
then pay somebody to do it...easy as pie
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i expect u could run it of the bk of stereo...if ur onlyusing amps..not using headunit to power speakers..cant see a problem doing it that way
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 05:58 PM
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i expect u could run it of the bk of stereo...if ur onlyusing amps..not using headunit to power speakers..cant see a problem doing it that way

spose you could
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yeh run it off the constant supply and put a nice switch in
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The guys that built my car wired through the dash-clock, and now the clock doesn't light at all. Great
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The guys that built my car wired through the dash-clock, and now the clock doesn't light at all. Great

lmao yea ive got one where the the clock should be atm wired from the clock i was thinking of running a wire from hear to the gauges
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Originally Posted by smerth54
lmao yea ive got one where the the clock should be atm wired from the clock i was thinking of running a wire from hear to the gauges
This is quite esy on a Mk3 Fiesta, recently did it.

Will get the wire colours for you later. I used the main supplies from the stero for power with IGN, and then the light supply for the 12V socket in the ash try I believe for head light supply to light the dials.
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