Tricell0010

My Vac/Boost gauge has three wires that come out the back. One of them is the ground and the other two are for lights withing the gauge. There is a white wire that i coded silver in the Awesome picture and a Red one. The red wire illuminates parts of the gauge to be red and the white one illuminates things to be white. I was wondering if its possible to hook up the light to work with my parking light switch? Like The red lighting will only be one with my parking light (ambers) and the white one will turn on when my driving lights are on ( Night driving so the gauge is fully lighted.) Can anyone give me a good diagram on how to do this?

iboost

iTrader: (16)

which brand of gauge is this?

Tricell0010

Its Motor Meter Racing

Tricell0010

I just wanna know where to wire them so they lite up separate

Lapila82

iTrader: (3)

Wait so you want the option to light them up separately and control when they do and don't light up? If you want that, you need to wire it to a switch, and I have a how-to that includes how to do that...

Tricell0010

I would like them to be wired into my parking switch to work with my parking and head lights

Tricell0010

Bump Anyone?

TommyP

iTrader: (2)

Fuse tap into the fuse for steering wheel control illumination, #28. I think that would only come on when the headlights are on.

NCC-2000

Tap the red wire into the parking light wire and tap the white into the headlight low beam wire. That's the most direct way to do I would think. I don't know where said wires will be located in the cabin, but if you find them then I would do that, with proper fusing and such to protect the circuits.

EmperorJJ1

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exactly it would be a bitch but you could run the wires all the way to the headlights. fuse of course and just piggyback or if your afraid of too much current draw wire up relays but that shouldnt be necessary

Lapila82

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I used to have LED's in my grille that I wired to the park lamps, I grounded to a bolt in the bay, and I just jammed the power wire into the fuse slot for the park lamps, had it for over a year no problems.

EmperorJJ1

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im not even sure how thats relevent to wiring up a gauge. but ill take ur comment and step it up a notch

i got a big ass banner that said **** wetbacks on one side and **** ******s on the other side put it on a big ass pole and drove around in the hood listening to racist ass redneck music and didn't get shot.... that doesn't make it a good idea thou does it?

Lapila82

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You said you wired it to the headlights, I was just saying that I did something that involved wiring to headlights but I just went to the fuse box...

EmperorJJ1

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oh i c.... my bad i was thinking u meant something completely different. i guess he could go to the fusebox for parking and headlight instead of direct to the headlight. although just shoving the wires in the slot is a bad idea still.

Lapila82

iTrader: (3)

Well it wasn't that tight of a fit, all I'm saying is that since the metal of the wire was touching the actual fuse it didn't do any actual harm, and it was LED lights so they basically run on nothing. And no problem, this is like the most harmless misunderstanding I've ever seen on this site.