Need help pimpin out the car with neons, but eclipses are different

[50 Yen]

I've been working at circuit city for 2 and a half months now and i felt the urge to trick out my eclipse. Now i thought of an idea the other day to wire neons into my car, i want it so that when i open my doors, my car pimps out and goes BLING! but the installers at my job told me it's hard work and it's gonna need a crap load of relays because in our eclipses, when the door pin is pressed, it's at 12 volts, but when the car door opens, it drops it down to 0 volts which makes the domelight turn on, so it has a negitive effect than other cars. now can anyone figure out another way i can wire these things into our cars? i thought about wiring it through my domelight, so the domelight is the "switch", i don't know much about electronics so i don't even know if thats possible. Thanks guys!!

[JoeWagon]

Why are you attempting a special project if you have no idea how to do it? Yes, you could wire a relay to activate from the dome light, and turn on your lights. Find a friend that knows how to do this if you really want it done.

[imtheoneandonlyD]

all you have to do is find a light that turns on when you open your door and splice the neon wires into it. pretty simple

[50 Yen]

Well i can spice the nons off my domelight, but does it have enough current to run four 15" neons?? also i've watched installers work on cars before so i somewhat know what i'm doing, but of course i'll have people watch over me before i do something like that.

[george536]

your lookin at alot of work. have fun

[4G63t Power]

Go ask the ricers in the honda forums... they seem to know a good deal about neon, and bodykits. Ive talked to a couple of guys there that said they saw 20 whp just by adding neon under the chassis so they must be doing something right...

[Shpyder]

HAHAHAHAHA...lol. yeah...dont forget the 15 hp gains from the keWl blue washer LEDs.

[scottsee]

you know that little button that makes the chimes come on when the door is open. buy another, or tap into that. using that as your central relay.

[imtheoneandonlyD]

the guy asked a simple question and he gets told to goto the honda forum. honestly whats wrong with neons? i think its a cheap effective way of making something remotly unique. Ill admit i had underbody neons on my eclipse and i got alot of comments about how nice they looked.

george, im failing to see the "lots of work" its really simple to hook up four neons. Me and my buddy installed all 4 of my underbody neons with wireless remote in under and hour. I should add neither of us had ever done underbody lights before buts its fairly straight forward.

[EclipseRST]

all you gotta do is tap into the wires goin to either the lights under the dash or the domelight and they will work just fine! my suggestion is to just cut the wires (with the doors closed so you dont blow a fuse) and just wire them straight to the neons and not use a dome light or floor lights... its very simple to do and you just need to know which wire is positive and which one is negative!

[scottsee]

if you have an alarm with an auxiliry button, tap it into their, so you can use your alarm to turn them on or off. that way when your alarm goes off, your neons will flash just like your head lights.

[LittleGSEclipse]

I would not splice 4 15" inch neons to anyone light. Its too much power. Dont be lazy and take the extra time to run the power to the battery and put in a switch to control them. If you splice 4 neons to one wire or even 2 for that matter you will be pulling way too much power through the line and will melt your wires. Have fun re running your electrical system if that happens.

[EclipseRST]

neons hardly draw any power at all!!! you will not melt your wires if you hook neons up to them... even if you hook them all up to just one set of wires, say the dome light wires... THEY WILL NOT MELT.

[guitarXgeek]

Yea, I would listen to Jake when it comes to neons, since he IS the biggest closet ricer here

[50 Yen]

EclipseRTS got a great point, i can just wire them to my floor lights because i can still use my regular domelights if i have to read, but i noticed something, if i open my passanger door, my floor lights do not come on. so is that the way the cars are made or is it just mine?? i have a 96 RS. also, i have no problem cutting my floor lights then wiring them directly to my neons, but i would rather have a wire coming from my battery so that if i do wanna go with more lights and a undercar kit, i can. so is there a way i can wire this so i can hook my floor light wires into a switch, and when current runs throught it (when i open my door), it will activate my neons.