under dash neons

under dash neons

i recently bought 2 tubes of neon for under my dash...im not lookin for criticism on my purchase but just help on how to install them. i bought ones that didnt have cigarrette ligher adaper and just have a red and a black wire. i understand i ground hte black wire and i put hte red wire to a 12v source. where do i get a 12v source? and how do i mount them?

would it be fairly easy to just install a 16 gauge wire directly to the batter with an inline fuse? and wut amp fuse would i use?

depends on weather you want them to have power available all the time or if you only want power available when the key is turned. Direct to the battery is an option. Also you can go into the fuse box or the cigarette lighter wires...

i would like to hook it up to a toggle switch. could i do that from a cigarette lighter?

yeah, but then they will only work when the key is turned and the toggle switch is flipped.

ok i looked around my car and figured out hte easiest way i think im going to do this. Im going to go from under the cigarette lighter to the switch i have in the dash. then from the switch to both neons. and ground hte neons seperate. i bought a switch already and mounted it and i just need to buy some wire. wut gauge wire would i need? and how do i mount hte neon?

spent 30 min making a mount for my switch
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looks good... you can use just about any gauge you want. Just go smaller like 16 or so.

where u get wire. i went to radio shack and hte smallest they had was 50 ft
and thats way more then i need.

any wire... even speaker wire.

how do i hook it up to under the cigarette lighter? where to i twist the wires in.

anywhere... just cut them, twist in the neons and your done.

but under hte cigarette lighter, where do i twist the wires in? theres like 3 harnesses goin out of hte bottom and then theres like 4 rings on the sides of the bottom/ where do i put the wire?

i got them working. i hooked them up to the power taht lights up the leds on the cigarette lighter. but its not that bright. is this not powerful enough?

Hmm...I can't imagine neons needing more power than that circuit can provide...and if they are drawing too much power, they would have blown the fuse...

Perhaps the voltage is a little low from the current draw...perhaps it will be slightly brighter when the car is running...

Maybe its just the way they are...I'm sure they'll still look badass at night.

yea i got them hooked up now i just had to remount hte tube. but im having trouble finding a ground on het passengers side.

Question, I was wanting to get some under neons and under dash neons.

I was wanting to hook up the neons directly to my battery, have two toggles one for the under the car and one for the ones in the dash.

The real question is, will me hooking it directly to my battery blow the neons?

no, it will be fine direct to the battery.

no it wont be fine directly to the battery without an inline fuse.

the fuse is common sense, direct to the batt from there is cool

I can pickup the inline fuse from like autozone?

Also what gauge wire am I supposed to be using? I bought some 12 gauge wire right now.

Does it really matter?