Need a little help with wiring up the lamps for my aftermarket gauges

[Silver84k5]

i just bought autometer, Oil pressure and Water temp gauges..... Im in the process of wiring the lights up for them. My question is.. Do i just find the wire that is hot, when i turn the headlights on, and splice into them with the hot wires for the gauges? OR is there a more professional way of doing it? thx.

 

[POWERMAD]

Look on your fuse panel, there should be a terminal marked inst. lamps.
I just plug into that with a male spade connector.
This is not the fuse circuit, it is a single teminal power point for the dash lights.

 

[pauly383]

Exactly , and the cool thing is they dim with the dimmer switch

 

[diesel4me]

its only cool for lights!

We had a customer that hooked up his new stereo to the instument light "tap" in the fuse box--he couldnt figure out why it would play only at night,or with the lights on!!--it was only when I "dimmed" the lights and the radio dimmed with it(and sounded awful) that I asked him if he hooked it up to the fuse box,instead of the stock radio power wire--he said yea,there was an empty spot there,so I used that!--another guy used the same spot to power his foglights!--I'm suprised the 5 amp fuse didnt blow in either case,and the guys foglights looked like candles,even when not on the "dim" position--we rewired them with a new relay,and a toggle switch,they were 100 percent brighter!!

 

[mrk5]

We had a customer that hooked up his new stereo to the instument light "tap" in the fuse box--he couldnt figure out why it would play only at night,or with the lights on!!--it was only when I "dimmed" the lights and the radio dimmed with it(and sounded awful) that I asked him if he hooked it up to the fuse box,instead of the stock radio power wire--he said yea,there was an empty spot there,so I used that!--another guy used the same spot to power his foglights!--I'm suprised the 5 amp fuse didnt blow in either case,and the guys foglights looked like candles,even when not on the "dim" position--we rewired them with a new relay,and a toggle switch,they were 100 percent brighter!!

That's too funny!

I only just figured out that terminal was there a couple of months ago. Sure makes wiring the added gage lights easier.