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Old 02-13-2004, 04:22 PM
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k guys, iam istalling a bunch of gauges, and instead of going to the fuse box for power on every single gauge
i came up with this



its a barrier strip from radio shack just hook up one power wire to it and u can connect up to 8 power supplies
also for this to work like this i had to buy a barrier jumper strip.its like 2 bucks at the same place



it just makes everything a little cleaner.


what do u guys think?
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Old 02-13-2004, 04:38 PM
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Nice, it will keep all those wires running neatly to the guages. However you do know you can use any 12v power source inside the vehicle rather than running all the power wires through the firewall.
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Old 02-13-2004, 04:40 PM
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especially on Hondas. If you look on the fuse box inside the car there are two spots for connecting spade terminal female connectors. 1 gives 12v on ignition on and 1 give 12v when lights on
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Old 02-13-2004, 04:53 PM
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i do know that but im hooking up to many gauges... this way i can run one 12v switched to the panel and not have to worry about ---- draining my battery.. plus i have to many wires under my dash from the t.v, alarm,crossovers and ---- like that.. this was just ez'er for me
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Old 02-13-2004, 05:00 PM
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Don't forget you need to connect each of the screws to each other with jumper wires
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Old 02-13-2004, 05:01 PM
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hey no problem.. but make sure the power source is atleast switched other wise you will drain the battery. Probably need a relay of some sort.

ps. it will still draw same current whether you wire it like that or a single wire for each one to the battery.
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Old 02-13-2004, 05:08 PM
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whitey.... look at the pic i got a jumper strip there..
its cool thats what im doing is hooking up a 12v ingiton to it so it doesn't drain my battery.

so i take it u guys like this idea?
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i've seen better





















just kidding, looks good
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