I picked up a set of reverse glow gauges and was wanting to know where the best place is to wire them? Cause my buddy has a set that he had installed and the come on when he turns on his parking lights and head lights but they turn off when he turns on he bright lights......... Thank You For Any Input Ahead Of Time....

I have mine spliced to a green/white wire on the foglight switch plug. Also there is a green/black wire I cut and spliced the switch end to the green/white wire too to prevent my fogs from turning off with the high beam.

When I had some on my old Eclipse, I had them spliced into the cig lighter illumination wire.

Your best bet, hands down, is to wire it directly to the battery through a relay. I did this with all my gauges and my gauge faces. I ran a 14ga wire from the positive terminal of the battery to a relay in the center console. From there separate wires all run to the different gauges. One side of the coil of the relay is connected to the illumination wire of my stereo; the other side is grounded.

While the gauge faces themselves don't draw too much current, you'd be better off having a direct line to the battery for future modifications. You can only tap existing electrical components so far; sooner or later, the current draw will exceed the wires' capability.


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Originally posted by VelocitaPaola
Your best bet, hands down, is to wire it directly to the battery through a relay. I did this with all my gauges and my gauge faces. I ran a 14ga wire from the positive terminal of the battery to a relay in the center console. From there separate wires all run to the different gauges. One side of the coil of the relay is connected to the illumination wire of my stereo; the other side is grounded. While the gauge faces themselves don't draw too much current, you'd be better off having a direct line to the battery for future modifications. You can only tap existing electrical components so far; sooner or later, the current draw will exceed the wires' capability.

/agree

you'll thank yourself later when you're adding additional accesories. don't mess around with tapping into wires that were not made to support additional current. fires and shorts are not fun.