so me and my buddie hooked up a boost gauge in his ion redline and i need to know how to run a switch so the backlight on the gauge will turn on and off. its the kind of switch that lights up when turned on. we ran the power wire to the fuse box stud and grounded it properly but when i turned the switch to off the lights dimmed and the wires started to melt. what did i do wrong?
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[ion] C2 - I ran her hard, on nothing but the bare ground. After easing into it and progressively pushing down harder I could feel the pressure building and once it peaked I let off and she gave a loud cry from the blow off valve.
Ttop191 - ^ because your car is the only thing that will suck and blow that you can actually successfully get within 25 feet of
when you turned it to off? well i would have said short circuit if it was when on, because your didn't wire it with enough of a load to provide a lot of resistance, but with it off I'm really not sure...
Ya its all grounded to a beefy ground and all but when i flipped the switch to turn the light off on the gauge the cabin lights dimmed and then i saw smoke and melting wires so idk. i need some help quick tho cause we are tryin to get this done
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[ion] C2 - I ran her hard, on nothing but the bare ground. After easing into it and progressively pushing down harder I could feel the pressure building and once it peaked I let off and she gave a loud cry from the blow off valve.
Ttop191 - ^ because your car is the only thing that will suck and blow that you can actually successfully get within 25 feet of
PROBABLY wired the switch to ground. Sometimes those lighted switches say they need a ground (and they do for the light) but you gotta be careful that you don't connect it incorrectly.
could also be a bad switch. use a DMM with continuity check, to test to make sure the switch works.
umm u cant run one end of a switch from power and the other end to ground...when u flip that switch u will just be shorting out the connection = smoke and melting wire lol
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