headlight power for gauges

[mynismo]

i just installed the white gauges in my car with indiglo thingies... just needed to know where to tap the power in to.

it says tap it into headlight power supply. where is that??? i looked in my fsm but still couldnt find it.

[mynismo]

hmmmm

no one knows? i got the cluster just sitting somewhere.

you think it can connect to the power off of the button off the gauge cluster that just flips the lights up and down? i need this taken care of... kinda hard driving at night right now.......

[SR20DETpower]

yes do that, their instructions just seem real vague.... but headlight power supply defintely has something to do with the lights comming on. The old wires for the stock dash probably goto the headight power, you could probably just use those same wires or find where they go.....

[TatII]

here is a definit one. i did this for my guage. what you do is look for the interior light dimmer switch. what you gotta do is take a test light, and turn the interior light on, ( parking light ) then you take a clamp and clamp the test light to a good ground ( frame or bare metal part of car ) then you take the test light prob and you poke into each wire and if the light on the test light lights up, then you know that the wire is a power wire, so you hook up that light wire to that power wire, and you hook up the ground wire to a ground anywhere. and your set, it will be on whenever you turn on the parkin light ( the first click on the headlights before the actual headlights turn on )

[mynismo]

thanks for the answer tat... too bad af wasn't up! i figured it out myself by going through tons of honda indiglo faq's.... the dimmer works great.

those instructions are awful, it said connect to headlight power supply and that was completely wrong!!! it connects to the dimmer...