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I have some inetrior neons and nameless other interior elctrical devices (handsfree, etc) and I cn't stand having like 4 cigarette plugs to plug in and change around all the time, can I somehow change the cig plug to an easier to handle switch or something? How would I go about doing this and would I change the plugs of the original devices?? Thanks for any help
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Yeah, like Shadow said. Switches are the way to go. You can get them from almost any car parts place - autozone, carquest, advance auto, etc. They can come in a variety of colors and glow. Then get it, remove the center console and cut a small area in which you want the switch. (otherwise, its quite popular to upgrade to a single DIN cd player and place all switches on a plastic panel underneath the cd player). Once you do that, run a heavy duty stereo wire from the switch, biggest gauge you can find with a 12 volt fuse somewhere (probably close to the switch) to the positive battery terminal. Run another wire from the switch ground to a peice of UNpainted metal behind the dash. Cut you neon wires off. The positive wire is the one that is connected to the bulb fuse in the plug. Run that wire to the open slot on the switch, and the negitive wire to the ground on the switch. You can put as many neons as you want on this switch. If you're running the under cd player switch setup, I suggest putting more than one. Like 3 or 4. That way it doesn't get clutered back there and you'll have more control over your lights. This looks a hell of a lot better than turning on all your neons one at a time. This also gives you a way to turn off your subs if the police are so inclined to wanna hear your sound system. Trust me on the last one, they've yet to find out - its hilarious. Also, the reason I said running it to the battery is that the cig lighter is not powered when the car is not on on most cars (not sure on the Celi). Thus, you cant have your neons on when your out of the car. If you run the switch to the battery, you can have them all as long as you want. I suggest no longer than 2 hours without starting it though. Otherwise it might not start. Maybe I'll do a how-to on this... hum. If you want a picture of how I did mine, I can probably rope down my old Talon - its still buzzing around my town. Hope I helped.
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