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Old 09-25-2009, 09:57 PM
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Re: electrical gurus direct wiring

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Originally Posted by SoCal LS-L View Post
Check Radio Shack.... basically with a 12V DC system, you could theoretically run one heavy gauge wire from the battery, and use it to power everything you needed inside the car. Depending on what those were, You could use a 12 or 10 gauge wire with a 30-50 amp inline fuse, feed it into a splitter block hidden where your ashtray is, and just plug whatever you wanted into it, using bullet connectors or spade connectors etc. that have been crimped or soldered into the power cord for whatever device you are using.

Basically if it plugs into the cigarette lighter, its 12v DC, and you could hook it into the block.

Radio Shack would have a number of different power taps, you would just have to feed it 12V battery and ground, and then convert all your power cords to plug into it. If the device does not take 12 volts DC but plugs into the car cig lighter, then there would be a transformer in-line somewhere between the cig plug and the device... so you would still be able to tap in into the power block.
I use to manage a RadioShack... I could answer all sorts of crazy questions, except when it came to damn DC stuff
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