Toggle Switch

[Stali08]

Okay, well I just got a toggle switch and im still confused about how to hook it up. The one that I got has the three prongs, Supply volts, On Accessory, and the Earth Ground. Now the neon lights that I have, have a box on the wire, and i'm guessing that its the fuse box, but i dont know if I should cut before it or after it. Any information (detailed) would be greatly appreciated and is there any special type of wire that i should use to wire it up? Thanks

[slave]

I dont know how your NEON's are supposed to be wired but mine have 3 leads too, one for the earth which I wired to an earthing point on the chassis, one goes between the switch and the NEON controller, the other from the controller straight to the battery terminal.

[civickiller]

i think that box your talking about is liek a voltage regulator either putting out more volts, or stepping it down, or amps i should say. put the switch before that black box

[Stali08]

ok so cut the wire after the box and then attatch that to the switch?

[1PhatCX]

the black box is to set the neons, if u have the one i got ne ways
if it has a switch, it should say, on, off, beat 2 music

[Stali08]

ok, the toggle switch that i got has three prongs, and my neon has 2 wires. what wires connect to what prongs? and can i just use plain old black wire for the ground wire?

[quiXilver]

Originally posted by Stali08
ok, the toggle switch that i got has three prongs, and my neon has 2 wires. what wires connect to what prongs? and can i just use plain old black wire for the ground wire?

I'll tell ya what ya need to do-I got the same toggle switch. The wire with the box on it-cut it after the box, put that to "on accessory" Run a wire for power (connected to battery i guess) and put that to "supply volts", then the earth ground can just go to-well, i think you can figure where that goes, and also connect the other wire comming from ur lights (the negative wire) to the earthground on the switch. And that should do it.

[Stali08]

Thanks. what kind of wire should I use to run from my battery? And how should I run it?

[crxlvr]

run like a 10 guage should be fine, and run it neatly through a grommet in the firewall and under your carpet and shit, you dont wanna ghetto rig it.

[Stali08]

ha ha...i guess you didnt read my post on my speakers did you?

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...411#post957050

[crxlvr]

yea i saw that, hence why i mentioned not to follow the same path.

[Stali08]

yea ill do it clean this time. where do i connect the wire to on the batter tho?

[crxlvr]

the red side

[quiXilver]

Originally posted by crxlvr
run like a 10 guage should be fine, and run it neatly through a

ain't that a little large just for lights? I mean, how's he gonna hook up that huge wire through the switch? there's no way! he's gonna have to use like 14-16ga

[crxlvr]

connector were made for a reason, plus if he adds lights later in life, he wont have to change the wire again.