How many LED gauges to one wire?
 

Hey all.

I'm putting new gauges in my "A" pillar and in the cluster thingy I bought from Never Done and I was wondering how many gauges can I put on one wire, LED wise.

I'm going to Auto Meter gauges and I'm looking to make the wiring simpiler than I did when I put in the Faze gauges. The Faze gauge lighting had inline glass fuses in each gauge. Each one is .5 amp fuse.

Could I wire all 5 to one wire and use a 5 amp fuse? I'm probably going to wire the 3 "A" piller gauges on one and the 2 cluster gauges to another and use 5 amps on each.

Only the lighting part ;)

.5*5 = 2.5A allow a little variance for power fluctuations (turning on and suck) a 3A fuse would work fine.

yes, you can power them all off the same line. Using 5 amp would be overkill. You would surge and damage them with much less then that.

Cool thanks Chris.

I knew this was up your alley :D

i have all my leds run off one wire. :thumb:

you'll be fine. Just be sure you use solid connections. Don't twist the wire together and cover in tape.

...in other words... don't be ion. :lol:

It's the fuses part that confuses me. I have so far tapped into gauge harness for my overlays and the leds on my floor... when do I need to worry? Lol I think Im already pulling an ion?

the things you tapped, already have fuses protecting them.

your need fuses if your running a brand new line OR want more protection for each individual unit.

But you don't want your fuse to be way over your draw. For example: If you have a unit that draws 2A you'd want a fuse at 2.5 or 3 Amp since a 5A fuse is more then twice the draw of the device. There is a good chance that kinda of boost would fry the circuits inside the device.

Redog,
Since you have helped me with gauges, let me tell you how I did mine. I have glowshift tinted 7 color LED gauges.
What I did is run a 14 gauge RED wire of the RED wire of the radio; Do the same EXACT thing with a YELLOW wire. Then run all of your grounds to the same contact (ONLY IF A VERY SOLID AND GOOD SPOT)! then all you have to do is run the sensor wires and plug into each individaul gauges and boom done.
Hope this helps.
-Smurf-

NO TAPING!!!! TAPING IS FOR WOOSIES, use simple butt connectors if your NOT very good at soldering.
-Smurf-