Footwell Neons - Interior Light - Page 4 - Saxperience

DJ_Kida · 1st July 2008, 11:09

Yeah i get ya now.. im guessing if he puts the + and - onto the door switch in the wrong way then it'll blow the neon all together then??

Danzman - Go and buy yourself a multi-meter, its gonna be the easiest way for you rather than doing all this head-unit stuff.

Coonper - Thanks for the little advice.

Coonper · 1st July 2008, 11:15

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Originally Posted by DJ_Kida

Yeah i get ya now.. im guessing if he puts the + and - onto the door switch in the wrong way then it'll blow the neon all together then??

Danzman - Go and buy yourself a multi-meter, its gonna be the easiest way for you rather than doing all this head-unit stuff.

Coonper - Thanks for the little advice.

Agreed! Multimeter ftw!

Although a car bulb would do the job nicely to test for voltages!

DJ_Kida · 1st July 2008, 11:18

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Originally Posted by Coonper

Agreed! Multimeter ftw!

Although a car bulb would do the job nicely to test for voltages!

Thats it mate!! You've just come up with a better idea.

When he comes back, why dont he take the interior light assembly out of the roof lining, disconnect it, then use that to test which is positive and which is negative??

kxhaz · 1st July 2008, 11:32

cant someone who has a multimeter go out and chek it on there car??? then let him no what is what??

Coonper · 1st July 2008, 11:33

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Originally Posted by kxhaz

cant someone who has a multimeter go out and chek it on there car??? then let him no what is what??

Off you go then.

stingerps2 · 6th July 2008, 11:35

i got blue foot well neons but only coz my car is blue migth get white ones and see what they are like

danzman1991 · 6th July 2008, 12:29

The ebay guy has finally sent my replacement, so will be doing it as soon as they come

DJDannyB · 6th July 2008, 22:28

let us know if you get it to come on and off with the interiors mate. will be interesting.

lukowski14 · 8th July 2008, 05:28

hey, good luck with that - i'm interested dude.

tjbaker91 · 8th July 2008, 22:26

yer, make sure you tell u show it goes, ive got my neons but id love them to come on when i open my door

danzman1991 · 8th July 2008, 23:54

Okie, they finally came today!

Will be earthing the Wires to the car tomo properly, will get back to you then, cheers.

DJDannyB · 9th July 2008, 00:00

cool

gussy · 9th July 2008, 12:17

I can't wait for the guide my mates got footwell neons in his st focus and it looks well good

danzman1991 · 11th July 2008, 20:07

They came in the post the other day, I put them somewhere and I can't actually find them anywhere. Bare with me people

gussy · 21st July 2008, 12:15

how's the neons going?

DJDannyB · 21st July 2008, 16:41

you still searching for them ?

jasonwellwicked · 25th July 2008, 00:27

Hiya folks - not to thread hijack, but as a source of information user 'Ace_Alex' and I have wired up his neons using the switch 'button' on the door. By lifting up the drivers side carpet (by undoing bolt) you can see an earth point which is easy to get to. The Two wires which have been mentioned earlier - one white and one brown are switched live.

We managed to splice into the white wire - in order to gain power - however did so from where the white wire goes into the car cabin - with a mass of other wires bunched together through a gromet. This again is located behind the carpet on the drivers side - on the righter msot side of the vehicle only 6 inches up the height of the car (pictures will be coming soon)

Anywho we have made an error somewhere - DO NOT ATTEMPT what we have done because: we intended neons to come on when driver door opened - instead they come on when said door is closed.

Therefore with that piece of info, does anyone know what we need to do in order to rectify the situation? Help would be much appreciated!!

Cheers Jase

Coonper · 25th July 2008, 08:01

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Originally Posted by jasonwellwicked

Hiya folks - not to thread hijack, but as a source of information user 'Ace_Alex' and I have wired up his neons using the switch 'button' on the door. By lifting up the drivers side carpet (by undoing bolt) you can see an earth point which is easy to get to. The Two wires which have been mentioned earlier - one white and one brown are switched live.

We managed to splice into the white wire - in order to gain power - however did so from where the white wire goes into the car cabin - with a mass of other wires bunched together through a gromet. This again is located behind the carpet on the drivers side - on the righter msot side of the vehicle only 6 inches up the height of the car (pictures will be coming soon)

Anywho we have made an error somewhere - DO NOT ATTEMPT what we have done because: we intended neons to come on when driver door opened - instead they come on when said door is closed.

Therefore with that piece of info, does anyone know what we need to do in order to rectify the situation? Help would be much appreciated!!

Cheers Jase

Thats a funny one mate! Surely if the switch needs to be closed in order for the neons to come on, then the switch will need to be closed for the interior light to work...?

It would be worth trying using the other live (brown) which goes into the switch, but i would think this other wire would be permanent live.

jasonwellwicked · 25th July 2008, 15:31

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Thats a funny one mate! Surely if the switch needs to be closed in order for the neons to come on, then the switch will need to be closed for the interior light to work...?

It would be worth trying using the other live (brown) which goes into the switch, but i would think this other wire would be permanent live

Cheers for response coonper - We have tried what you articulated above today to no avail - bizarely it had the same affect as before the neons were happy to come on when the door was closed... but not when it was open.

What are your thoughts on the following ideas: 1) somehow wire the red neon wire into both the passenger and the driver side white cable (create a split in the red wire to feed off of each door)... or 2) connect the red wire to the white for instance, and the black (hesitant to say) to the brown rather than the earthing point as before!

Would pictures help??

Jase

betty02 · 25th July 2008, 15:59

Ok i have no idea what im talking about really but could he not just get to the interior light on the roof im guisng all that will have is a pos, neg and earth.

he just connects pos to pos, earth to earth and neg to neg, and then leave the switch be and as the switch is opened or closed or whatever the pwoer that runs to the normal interios light will also run alon the wires he just put in 9by snipping into OE wires) and therefore light up his neons whenver that is lit up/?