I have all my guage lighting hardwired to the cigarette lighter. Turn on the ignition and they glow. It is great for illuminating them when they are under the dash on a quiet dark country road without having to turn on the headlights. Later. Rick White.
--- "Terry Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mark, > >Most 1600 looms have a 3 pin plug that's for the clock in the GL and it's >not usually on wiring diagrams. (The Japanese loom for clock eg Wagon is >different as it uses 2 plugs, 1 for battery power and earth and another for >it's lighting (green/black and another black wire from memory as it's >lighting is external). The GL clock plug has battery (red/blue), light >(green/white?) and earth (black) wires and is very handy for lighting >additional gauges. What I usually do for additional lighting is cut the plug >off and run these wires into a Clipsal block connector and then off the >other side of the Clipsal block connector to gauges or whatever. Another way >is to solder in a male connector onto the light circuit on the PCB and then >run a wire to a block connector. Some Datsun dashes eg 180B are done like >this ex-factory but I've never seen a 1600 dash with an auxiliary lighting >connector. > >regards >Terry > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark >Sent: Monday, 8 July 2002 12:34 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: wiring in gauges > > >I'd been eyeing off a nice white-face 3 3/4" Autometer tacho the last >few visits to the auto shop and convinced myself I really did need to >know what revs were going on so brought it home on Sat. Did some dicky >wiring just to test it out - now that I've pulled the dash out I see I'd >better fix the spaghetti wiring for instrument lights for the other >after market guages (temp, oil, and vac/boost gauges). I haven't removed >the cluster yet, but I imagine an easy fix for lighting would be to just >solder a wire onto a PCB trace leading to a factory dash light? >I have one wire for switched source of power - what's the neatest >connector/junction to use to take this to four difference points - under >the electrical tape i imagine they're just bare wires wound together and >all taped up ATM so this is not ideal. > >mark. > > _____________________________________________________________ Get Your free Ozdat Email Account ---> http://www.ozdat.com _____________________________________________________________ Promote your group and strengthen ties to your members with [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net/?btn=tag --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
