Need help with EL Door Sills Installation
 

Hi,

I recently got some Protege5 EL door sills from pr5owner. I'm still trying to figure out how I can wire this in. The wiring looks pretty simple: a pair of red wires and a pair of black wires.

The black wires are ground and the reds are 12v. I'm thinking I'll need to wire in to a constant 12v. I know the door triggers are a negative ground switch so I can wire the black wires to that.

Now the red wires. I have 2 questions:
1) The room fuse is a constant 12v, right?
2) If I use a fuse tap on the ROOM fuse, which side of the fuse leads to the battery? I don't want to tap into the wrong blade of the fuse! I don't have a meter so I'm hoping someone can please figure this out for the rest of us.

This is the fuse tap I'm talking about courtesy of http://www.thomasregister.com/olc/wirthco/:
http://www.thomasregister.com/olc/wirthco/fusep1.jpg

Any help is most appreciated.

anyone??? :D

Bijou: maybe we should hang out on the "other" board instead:

http://www.protege5.com/vbb225/showt...threadid=14279

I'm bored so I'll reply.

I don't see how it would matter which side you tap it on, unless you want to too keep working after the fuse blows, or to stop. If that doesn't matter, then it really doesn't matter which side you stick it on. it's all the same curretn on each side. I don't know how the fuse box is wired, so I won't comment on that.

Hope this sorta helped ?!?

I would simply tap this into the dome light wiring, so they would light up when the door was opened. EL uses barely any current, so there are no worries about overloading the circuit.

How much did you pay for the sills??

~HH

101.30 shipped to my door (from CA to US)

its not very hard to install, 30 mins for mine
(1)
red wires (x2) connect them together so you get 1 red wire
black wires (x2) connect them together so you get 1 black wire
(2)
connect red wire to room fuse you can use vampire tap, splice the 2 wires together, blah blah, your choice, i spliced it soldered and heat shrinked it
(3)
conenct red wire to negative door lock switch (black wire with blue stripe comming out of connector that has an orange stripe which connects to a white/clear box look at picture)
i had to splice/solder/heat shrink the black wire to the black/blue wire
(4)
make all wires tidy and out of sight
(5)
take pictures and show ppl to brag about how l33t you are

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...8/fc89eb05.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...f/fc89eaf9.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...b/fc89eaf2.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...6/fc89eade.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...c/fc89eac9.jpg

edit: LOL oops i spelled stripe wrong in 1 of the pictures... :D