Neon lighting....

[ridered36 10+ year member]

What do the normal tube neon lights require for power? Just a 12v wire and then a ground? Where can i bring the 12v wire in besides direct form my battery?

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[jer_stud56 10+ year member]

you can use a car neon light...it plugs right into the ligher.

or you can get a inverter...which goes into the ligher and can hold up to 2 things at once...usually pretty cheap to buy, about 20 bucks.

Pe@cE

 

[DjNickCastoro 10+ year member]

Originally posted by ridered36 What do the normal tube neon lights require for power? Just a 12v wire and then a ground? Where can i bring the 12v wire in besides direct form my battery?

yea just hardwire them,i did, i would recommend running a wire w/ inline fuse directly off your battery and tapping into that... and i would add a switch to turm the neons off i necessary

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Yes, you can go to your local auto zone or whatever car store, and buy a switch, comes with all the necessary wiring, just wire it to that.

 

[awalbert88 10+ year member]

I ran a dedicated 8awg power line (w/25A fuse) from the battery to a switch located by my shifter:

I use that to power three black light neons (adding another soon), located under the seats and under the dash. I mainly just use it for showing off the car, and with power coming directly from the battery with no ignition cutoff, you have to remember to turn it off every time you turn the car off or you'll run the battery down.

 

[evo2k3 10+ year member]

8 guage is pretty heafty for neons alone......anyways, a use a relay to solve the cut off problem.

 

[awalbert88 10+ year member]

True, 8 guage is bigger than needed, but I didn't have anything else handy that was long enough, and I have a tendency to go overboard with stuff //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by awalbert88 True, 8 guage is bigger than needed, but I didn't have anything else handy that was long enough, and I have a tendency to go overboard with stuff //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Hey, the bigger the better

 

[avistar23 10+ year member]

ther is no such thing as too big //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[paikiah 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by ridered36 What do the normal tube neon lights require for power? Just a 12v wire and then a ground? Where can i bring the 12v wire in besides direct form my battery?

I got a positive 12V lead out of my relay, which also controls the amp's remote wires... of course, it goes to a switch first, and THEN to the neon...